Show WHY of superstitions by H IRVINO KINQ WHY WE REMEMBER wable WE E REMEMBER because we are able to learn what we experience to retain what relearn to recall whit we retain and to recognize what we recall memory I 1 Is made up of these four processes learning retention lon re call and reco recognition A person sometimes complains that he has a poor memory that he can t remember anything or that he has a fairly good memory for faces but cant can t remember names if you cant can t remember names it Is probably be cause you filled pilled to lucirn le irn them in the first place you can t expect to re member what you never knew if you kiy special attention to learn jn ang properly the other three factors oi of memory will take care of them sch seli es there Is pot not much you can ado do to improve your our retention recall and recognition the secret of proper learn ingris making strong associations with other things that are already in the mind to ghe gle only a single sin g I 1 e ex ample it you want to remember a certain telephone bone number which Is eav yon you might break it up into two 73 05 and conneen connect in some somi convenient way may such a as in dollars and cents you might think of this num her ber as being worth 73 05 r all recall Is through gli association ae e naturally associate appo opposes sim and things that enter the mind at the same time or immediately follow eich ench other A hen lien I 1 say dav you t tl ink of night because they art are opposite leq U ben hen I 1 say A you think of B I 1 because you learned them in succession Ion there are many tricks to aid mem ory all of them conlest consist in method of imp improving the process of learn learning tn wo we can think them up for ours ourselves elies if 11 we mastor master the principle of association it Is the secret of good learning and hene of improving our memories r by mcclure ner newspaper syndicate |