Assimilative memory, or, How to attend and never forget / by A. Loisette.

  • Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
Date:
1899
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    him to remember the true name without any device ; or, if he was but a beginner at my System he could have re- membered the name Birkbeck—which he was afraid he would forget—by correlating it to the word—‘‘ Founder,” which he did remember, thus:—Founder...lost way...hark- back ... Birkbeck ; or, Founder ...foundered horse ... chest- nut horse...chestnut...bur...Birkbeck. If he had memorised either of these Correlations, or one of his own, by repeat- ing the intermediates forwards and backwards two or three times, and then recalled the two extremes, ‘‘ Founder,” “ Birkbeck,” several times, the moment he thought of Founder, he would instantly have recalled Birkbeck, one extreme recalling the other without the intermediates being recalled. When one has received only a third of the benefit of this System as a Memory-TRAiNER, the mere making of a Correlation ensures remembering two extremes together without thinking of intermediates. [Dr. Johnson, when introduced to a stranger repeated his name several times aloud and sometimes spelled it. This produced a vivid first impression of the man’s na7?ie j but it did not connect the name to the man who bore it. People who have adopted the Johnsonian Method some- times remember the name but apply it to the wrong person, because they did not establish any relation between the name and the man to whom it belonged.] EXERCISES IN CORRELATING. Make 20 of your own Correlations between faces and names (or between words and meanings), using some of the extremes given by me, and, as other extremes (words, &c., I. Is it ever possible to remember two extremes without thinking of the intermediates? 2. In what cases? 3. What did Dr. Johnson sometimes do when introduced to a stranger? 4. What sometimes occurs with people who have adopted the Johnsonian Method? 5. Why is this? 6. As Max Muller names mental acts in this order : Sensation, Perception, Conception, Naming, and Memory, would he hold that failure to remember names implies weakness of naming power? No ! Remembering a name is an act wholly unlike imposing a name in the first instance. Such failure arises from weakness of the auditory function, or of the perception of individual peculiarities or failure of the sight-image to become cemented to the sound image.