Format:
Online-Ressource (xxvi, 334 p.)
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19 cm
Series Statement:
International education series
Content:
"There is no topic in educational psychology more important than that of memory and its cultivation. Memory is indispensable in all intellectual processes, and therefore must be trained and developed. Physiology shows the close and intimate connection that subsists between mind and body. From it we learn that every thought that passes through the mind, every sensation we experience, every act we do, produces some definite change in our bodily structure, so that there is reason to believe that there is a particular state of the body corresponding to every state or act of the mind. This change is permanent, and constitutes in the author's view the physical basis of memory, the type of which may be seen in the scar of a cut finger which remains long after the wound itself is healed, and never wholly disappears. It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of this subject as bearing upon education. The whole science of education may be said to be embraced in the question of "How to improve the memory?" It includes not merely the cultivation of the different mental faculties and furnishing them with knowledge, but the training of the senses, and the developing of the various physical powers. It has been the author's endeavour throughout the volume to bring out the practical bearings of his views upon education"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Includes index. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2011 dcunns
Language:
English
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