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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
by Harry
D. Kitson
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How to use
Your Mind by Harry D. Kitson, PH.D.
is a very useful handbook for both teachers and
students. It explores the basics of
comprehension and memorization and shows new
applications of memory in learning. The book
shows simple easy-to-follow steps to achieve
mental development. How to use Your Mind is an
excellent manual for use by students and
teachers in the management of supervised study.
Contents
CHAPTER
I. INTELLECTUAL PROBLEMS OF THE COLLEGE
FRESHMAN
Number. Variety. Lecture Method. Note Taking.
Amount of Library Work.
High Quality Demanded. Necessity for Making
Schedule. A College Course
Consists in the Formation of Habits. Requires
Active Effort on Part of
Student. Importance of Good Form.
II. NOTE TAKING
Uses of Notes. LECTURE NOTES--Avoid Verbatim
Reports. Maintain Attitude
of Mental Activity. Seek Outline Chiefly. Use
Notes in Preparing Next
Lesson. READING NOTES--Summarize Rather Than
Copy. Read With Questions
in Mind. How to Read. How to Make
Bibliographies. LABORATORY
NOTES--Content. Form. Miscellaneous Hints.
III. BRAIN ACTION DURING STUDY
The Organ of Mind. Gross Structure. Microscopic
Structure. The Neurone.
The Nervous Impulse. The Synapse. Properties of
Nervous Tissue
--Impressibility, Conductivity, Modifiability.
Pathways Used in
Study--Sensory, Motor, Association. Study is a
Process of Making
Pathways in Brain.
IV. FORMATION OF STUDY-HABITS
Definition of Habit. Examples. Inevitableness of
Habits in Brain and
Nervous System. How to Insure Useful
Habits--Choose What Shall Enter;
Choose Mode of Entrance; Choose Mode of Egress;
Go Slowly at First;
Observe Four Maxims. Advantages and
Disadvantages of Habit. Ethical
Consequences.
V. ACTIVE IMAGINATION
Nature of the Image. Its Use in Imagination.
Necessity for Number,
Variety, Sharpness. Source of "Imaginative"
Productions. Method of
Developing Active Imaginative Powers: Cultivate
Images in Great
Number, Variety, Sharpness; Actively Combine the
Elements of Past
Experience.
VI. FIRST AIDS TO MEMORY--IMPRESSION
Four Phases. Conditions of Impression: Care,
Clearness, Choice of
Favorable Sense Avenue, Repetition, Overlearning,
Primacy, Distribution
of Repetitions, (Inferences Bearing Upon
Theme-writing), "Whole" vs.
"Part" Method, "Rote" vs. "logical" Method,
Intention.
VII. SECOND AIDS TO MEMORY--RETENTION, RECALL
AND RECOGNITION
Retention. Recall. Recall Contrasted With
Impression. Practise Recall
in Impression. Recognition. Advantages of
Review. Memory Works
According to Law. Possibility of Improvement.
Connection With Other
Mental Processes.
VIII. CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION
Importance in Mental Life. Analysis of Concrete
Attentive State.
Cross-section of Mental Stream. Focal Object,
Clear; Marginal Objects,
Dim. Fluctuation. Ease of Concentration Requires
(1) Removal of All
Marginal Distractions Possible, (2) Ignoring
Others. Conditions
Favorable for Concentration. Relation to Other
Mental Processes.
IX. HOW WE REASON
Reasoning Contrasted with Simpler Mental
Operations. Illustrated by
Method of Studying Geometry. Analysis of
Reasoning Act: Recognition of
Problem, Efforts to Solve It, Solution. Study in
Problems. Requirements
for Effective Reasoning: Many Ideas, Accessible,
Clear. How to Clarify
Ideas: Define, Classify. Relation Between Habit
and Reasoning. Summary.
X. EXPRESSION AS AN AID IN STUDY
Expression an Inevitable Accompaniment of
Nervous Activity. Extent of
Expressive Movements. Relation Between Ideas and
Expressive Acts.
Ethical Considerations. Methods of Expression
Chiefly Used in Study:
Speech, Writing, Drawing. Effects of Expression:
(1) On Brain, (2) On
Ideas. Hints on Development of Freedom of
Expression.
XI. HOW TO BECOME INTERESTED IN A SUBJECT
Nature of Interest. Intellectual Interests
Gained Through Experience.
Many Possible Fields of Interest. Laws of
Interest.
XII. THE PLATEAU OF DESPOND
Measurement of Mental Progress. Analysis of the
"Learning Curve."
Irregularity. Rapid Progress at Beginning. The
Plateau. Causes.
Remedies.
XIII. MENTAL SECOND-WIND
Description: (1) Physical, (2) Mental. Hidden
Sources of Energy.
Retarding Effect of Fatigue. Analysis of
Fatigue. How to Reduce
Fatigue in Study.
XIV. EXAMINATIONS
Purposes. Continuous Effort and Cramming.
Effective Methods of
Reviewing. Immediate Preparation for an
Examination Conduct in
Examination-room. Attitude of Activity. Attitude
of Confidence.
XV. BODILY CONDITIONS FOB EFFECTIVE STUDY
FOOD: Quantity, Quality, Surroundings. SLEEP:
Amount, Conditions,
Avoidance of Insomnia. EXERCISE: Regularity,
Emphasis.
SUGGESTIONS FOB FURTHER READING
INDEX
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Book Excerpts:
INTELLECTUAL PROBLEMS OF THE COLLEGE
FRESHMAN
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 met. They are also of
great variety, such as finding a
place to eat and sleep, regulating
your own finances, inaugurating a
new social life, forming new
friendships, and developing in body
and mind.
The
problems connected with mental
development will engage your chief
attention. You are now going to use
your mind more actively than ever
before and should survey some of the
intellectual difficulties before
plunging into the fight.
Perhaps the first difficulty you
will encounter is the substitution
of the lecture for the class
recitation to which you were
accustomed in high school. This
substitution requires that you
develop a new technique of
learning, for the mental processes
involved in an oral recitation are
different from those used in
listening to a lecture.
The lecture
system implies that the lecturer has
a fund of knowledge about a certain
field and has organized this
knowledge in a form that is not
duplicated in the literature of the
subject. The manner of
presentation, then, is unique and is
the only means of securing the
knowledge in just that form.
As soon as
the words have left the mouth of the
lecturer they cease to be accessible
to you. Such conditions require a
unique mental attitude and unique
mental habits. You will be
obliged, in the first place, to
maintain sustained attention over
long periods of time. The situation
is not like that in reading, in
which a temporary lapse of attention
may be remedied by turning back and
rereading.
In
listening to a lecture, you are
obliged to catch the words "on
the fly." Accordingly you must
develop new habits of paying
attention. You will also need to
develop a new technic for
memorizing, especially for
memorizing things heard. As a
partial aid in this, and also for
purposes of organizing material
received in lectures, you will need
to develop ability to take notes.
This is a process with which you
have heretofore had little to do. It
is a most important phase of college
life, however, and will repay
earnest study.
Another characteristic of college
study is the vast amount of reading
required. Instead of using a single
text-book for each course, you may
use several. They may cover great
historical periods and represent the
ideas of many men. In view of the
amount of reading assigned, you will
also be obliged to learn to read
faster. No longer will you have time
to dawdle sleepily through the pages
of easy texts; you will have to
cover perhaps fifty or a hundred
pages of knotty reading every day.
Accordingly
you must learn to handle books
expeditiously and to comprehend
quickly. In fact, economy must be
your watchword throughout. A German
lesson in high school may cover
thirty or forty lines a day,
requiring an hour's preparation. A
German assignment in college,
however, may cover four or five or a
dozen pages, requiring hard work for
two or three hours.
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