Questions in general and educational psychology / by Guy Montrose Whipple.
- Guy Montrose Whipple
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Questions in general and educational psychology / by Guy Montrose Whipple. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![621. Give striking instances of individual differences in memory. Upon what do they seem to depend ? 622. Discuss the relation of retention and memory in general to age. Which of the following statements is true? ib) “Our native retentiveness is unchangeable.’’ (J. P.) (2) “There are evidences of increase of the scope of memory thru training.’ (Ju.) (3) ‘‘The limit of development [of memory], tho fixed, is rarely reached.’’ (0.) (4) ‘‘ Mental grasp, or memory span, in reproducing impressions just received, increases with age in a marked degree.’’ (K.) (5) ‘*The receptivity and retentiveness of the child’s brain is probably as great as that of the adult.”’. (K.) (6) ‘*‘Memory for isolated impressions reaches its climax early in the teens.’’ (K.) hye The capacity for containing concrete sense-impressions is never so strong as at this period’ [8to12 years]. (B. E.) (8) ‘The investigation shows that there is no ‘memory period,’ no period in early school life when the memory is stronger than it is at any later portion of the child’s life, a period especially adapted to mem- orizing.’”’ (F. Smedley, Rept. Dept. Child-Stuly, Chicago, No. 3, 1902. Cf. also H. Y.—268 ff. ) | * 623. Explain ‘retroactive’ and ‘retrograde’ amnesia. Give illus- trations, and show their bearing upon the nature of retention and recall. (Cf. W. Burnham, Amer. Jour. Psych. xiv., 1998, 118-132.) How can these phenomena be reconciled with the principle of ‘recency’? (Ques- tion 627.) (b) Conditions of goodness or improvement of memory 624, In what ways can one’s retentive capacity be improved ? 625. Does ‘‘ easy come, easy go’’ hold good with regard to the acqui- sition and retention of information ?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31367124_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
