You will also need to develop a new technic for memorizing, especially for memorizing things heard.

You will also need to develop a new technic for memorizing, especially for memorizing things heard.

While you are brushing your hair or tying your shoes, your mind may be engaged in memorizing poetry or calculating arithmetical problems.

They bulk importantly in memorizing, as we shall see in Chapters VI and VII; and in reasoning, as we shall see in Chapter IX.

Though we often fail to realize it, much of our life is taken up with memorizing.

Suppose you are memorizing "Psalm of Life" to be recited a month from to-day, and that you require thirty repetitions of the poem to learn it.

Still another peculiarity of nervous action is revealed in these extended periods of memorizing.

After you have impressed the poem you are memorizing, do not immediately follow it by another poem.

" Now that we have regarded this "unconscious memorizing" from the neurological standpoint, let us consider it from the psychological standpoint.

Modern psychology has discovered that much memorizing goes on without our knowing it, paradoxical as that may seem.

Most people would respond, without thought, the latter, and, as a matter of fact, most memorizing takes place in this way.

Rote memorizing involves the repetition of material just as it stands, and usually requires such long and laborious drill that it is seldom economical.

Such a process of memorizing the date is less laborious than the method of rote memory, and is usually more likely to lead to ready recall.

We approach a phase of impression the importance of which is often unsuspected; namely, the intention with which memorizing is done.

When you are memorizing anything to be recalled, make part of your memorizing a rehearsal of it, if possible, under same conditions as final recall.

When you are memorizing anything to be recalled, make part of your memorizing a rehearsal of it, if possible, under same conditions as final recall.

In memorizing from a book, first make impression, then close the book and practise recall.

When memorizing a selection to be given in a public speaking class, intersperse the periods of impression with periods of recall.

One psychologist has advised that in memorizing significant material more than half the time should be spent in practising recall.

If, when you are memorizing, you continually tremble for fear that you will not recall at the desired moment, the fixedness of the impression will be greatly hindered.

The former makes use mostly of memory and though your memorizing be done ever so conscientiously, if it comprise the main part of your study, you fail to utilize your mind to its fullest extent.

She seemed to be memorizing his face.

She seemed quite relaxed now that her head could lie back against the leather cushion, and her gaze traveled about the dingy littered room with a kind of tender inquisitiveness as if she were memorizing its contents.

The Pianist's approach to sight-reading and memorizing.

The Pianist's approach to sight-reading and memorizing.