Throughout the book we shall find that as we develop ability to
manipulate mental images, we shall increase the adaptability of all the
mental processes.

READING AND EXERCISES

Reading: Dearborn (2) Chapter III.

Exercise 1. Call up in imagination the sound of your French
instructor's voice as he says _étudiant_. Call up the appearance on the
page of the conjugation of _être_, present tense.

Exercise 2. Choose some word which you have had difficulty in learning.
Look at it attentively, securing a perfectly clear impression of it;
then practise calling up the visual image of it, until you secure
perfect reproduction.

Exercise 3. List the different images called up by the passage from
_Romeo and Juliet_.




CHAPTER VI

FIRST AIDS TO MEMORY; IMPRESSION


Of all the mental operations employed by the student, memory is
probably the one in which the greatest inefficiency is manifested.