3. How can you hope to improve children's memories? Which of the factors
involved are subject to improvement?
4. In what way can you improve the organization of associations upon the
part of children in any one of the subjects which you teach? How
increase the number of associations?
5. What advantage has the method of concentration over the method of
repetition in memorization?
6. Give the reasons why the method of recall is the best method of
memorization.
7. If you were teaching a poem of four stanzas, would you use the method
of memorization by wholes or by parts? Indicate clearly the degree to
which the one or the other method should be used or the nature of the
combination of methods for the particular selection which you use for
the purposes of illustration.
8. How long do children in your classes seem to be able to work hard at
verbatim memorization?
9. Under what conditions may the writing of the material being memorized
actually interfere with the process? When may it help?
10. Why may it not be wise to attempt to teach "their" and "there" at
the same time?
11. What is the type of memory employed by children who have
considerable ability in cramming for examinations? Is this type of
memory ever useful in later life?
12. What precaution do we need to take to insure permanence in memory
upon the part of those who learn quickly?
13. What is meant by saying that we possess memories rather than a power
or capacity called memory?
14. Do we forget with equal rapidity in all fields in which we have
learned? What factors determine the rate of forgetting?
15. Why should a boy think through a poem to be memorized rather than
beginning his work by trying to repeat the first two lines?
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