How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study

It is a truism to say that mental ability is affected by bodily conditions. A common complaint of students is that they cannot study because of a headache, or they fail in class...

If you were asked to describe the most embarrassing of your class-room experiences, you would probably cite the occasions when the instructor asks you a series of questions dema...

After this discussion do not jump to the conclusion that just because you find some difficulty in using one sense avenue for impression, it is therefore impossible to develop it...

As already intimated, this book adopts the view that education is a process of forming habits in the brain. In the formation of habits there are several principles that must be...

Nearly everyone has difficulty in the concentration of attention. Brain workers in business and industry, students in high school and college, and even professors in universitie...

Did you ever engage in any exhausting physical work for a long period of time? If so, you probably remember that as you proceeded, you became more and more fatigued, finally rea...

Most educated people find occasion, at some time or other, to take notes. Although this is especially true of college students, they have little success, as any college instruct...

In our discussion of the nervous basis underlying study we observed that nerve pathways are affected not only by what enters over the sensory pathways, but also by what flows ou...

Though most people understand more or less vaguely that the brain acts in some way during study, exact knowledge of the nature of this action is not general. As you will be grea...

"I can't get interested in Mediaeval History." This illustrates a kind of complaint frequently made by college students. It is our purpose in this chapter to show the fallacy of...

One of the most vexatious periods of student life is examination time. This is almost universally a time of great distress, giving rise in extreme cases to conditions of nervous...

In our investigation of the psychology of study we have so far directed our attention chiefly toward the subjective side of the question, seeking to discover the _contents_ of m...

In entering upon a college course you are taking a step that may completely revolutionize your life. You are facing new situations vastly different from any you have previously...

A very large part of the mental life of a student consists in the manipulation of images. By images we mean the revivals of things that have been impressed upon the senses. Call...

Our discussion up to this point has centred around the phase of memory called impression. We have described some of the conditions favorable to impression and have seen that cer...

Of all the mental operations employed by the student, memory is probably the one in which the greatest inefficiency is manifested. Though we often fail to realize it, much of ou...

Exercise I. Cite examples from your own experience showing the effects of the following faults in making impressions. _a_. First impression not clear. _b_. Insufficient number o...