Assimilative Memory
by A. Loisette
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About this eBook
- Author
- Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
- Title
- Assimilative Memory; or, How to Attend and Never Forget
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Mnemonics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 25354
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25354
- Release Date
- May 6, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber’s note — ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY OR HOW TO ATTEND AND NEVER FORGET
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS. Skip → — ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY.
- 4.FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. — THREE LAWS OF MEMORY OR OF THINKING.
- 5. THE BRAIN TONIC EFFECT OF THE LAWS OF MEMORY RIGHTLY APPLIED. — FIRST LAW OF MEMORY. — SECOND LAW OF MEMORY. — THIRD AND LAST LAW OF MEMORY. — REMARKS ON THE THREE LAWS. — A TRAINING EXERCISE IN ATTENTION.
- 6.TRAINING THE INTELLECT TO STAY WITH THE SENSES. — IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF ANALYSIS.
- 7.HOW TO LEARN PROPER NAMES IN A CERTAIN ORDER OF SUCCESSION. — FIRST GROUP. Period of Organisation and Consolidation. — Remarks. — SECOND GROUP. Period of Territorial Expansion and the Growth of Internal Dissension. — Remarks. — THIRD GROUP. Period of Civil War and Reconstruction. — Remarks.
- 8. ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS. A UNIQUE EXERCISE.
- 9. NUMERIC THINKING. HOW TO NEVER FORGET FIGURES AND DATES. — A Scientific Experiment. — Exercises.
- 10. HOW TO LEARN PROSE AND POETRY BY HEART. — THE ANALYTIC SYNTHETIC METHOD APPLIED TO LONG SENTENCES. — Another Example Fully Worked Out. — A Long Legal Definition. — Moderation Advised. — Examples for Practice. — INTERROGATIVE ANALYSIS USED FOR SHORT SENTENCES. — The Same by Interrogative Analysis. — Examples for Practice. — POEMS LONG OR SHORT EASILY LEARNED BY HEART. Poe’s “Bells.” — THE BELLS. — APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC METHOD.
- 11. ANALYTIC SUBSTITUTIONS. ANOTHER METHOD FOR REMEMBERING DATES AND FIGURES. — RULES. Not to be glanced at or skipped, but to be carefully studied. — HOW TO DEAL WITH DECIMAL FRACTIONS. — How to Find words with Which to Translate Dates and Numbers. — SYNTHETIC TRANSLATION OF FIGURES. — ANALYTIC DATE AND NUMBER WORDS. — DATES OF THE ACCESSION OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS. — DATES OF THE ACCESSION OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS. — EXPLANATIONS. — NUMBER OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS. — DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON. — MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES. — BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND SCIENCE. — SPECIFIC GRAVITIES. — RIVERS. — MOUNTAINS. — LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE. — EARLY TRAINING IN FIGURES. — WHAT MUST BE DONE FOR AN ACQUIRED ATTENTION.
- 12. THOUGHTIVE UNIFICATIONS. CONNECTING THE UNCONNECTED. — HOW TO HELP THE MEMORY. — MODES OF ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS. — EXAMPLES OF CORRELATIONS. — ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS COMPARED. — HOW TO MEMORISE A CORRELATION. — ASSIMILATIVE ASSOCIATION AND MEMORY. — RULES FOR MAKING CORRELATIONS. — ISOLATED FACTS. — HOW TO REMEMBER PROPER NAMES WHEN INTRODUCED. — EXERCISES IN CORRELATING. — LEARNING FOREIGN WORDS. — HOW TO MEMORISE DATES, &c. , WHERE YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE FACTS, &c. — Serial Facts. — ORDER OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS. — EXERCISE.—CASES IN EVERY-DAY LIFE. — SPEAKING WITHOUT WRITTEN OR PRINTED NOTES. — EXERCISE. — DISTANCES OF PLANETS FROM THE SUN. — EXTRACTS FROM QUAIN’S ANATOMY. To be studied by none but Medical Students. — POISONS AND ANTIDOTES. — THE TWELVE PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES. — PROTOPLASM.
- 13. BOOKS LEARNED IN ONE READING. — LEARN FIRST TO MAKE ABSTRACTS OF WHAT IS NEW TO YOU. — HOW TO MAKE ABSTRACTS.
- 14.How to learn a long series of Unconnected Facts in the Sciences or Events in History, Chapters in Books, or the Contents of Books. — One Hundred Events of the Victorian Era, learned by one careful Reading or Study. — FIRST EXERCISE. — SECOND EXERCISE. — THIRD EXERCISE. — FOURTH EXERCISE. — FIFTH EXERCISE. — SIXTH EXERCISE. — ANALYSIS OF ONE HUNDRED EVENTS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA. — A CONCLUDING REMARK.
- 15.FOOTNOTES:
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