Assimilative Memory; or, How to Attend and Never Forget
by A. Loisette
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Chapters (92)
- ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY OR HOW TO ATTEND AND NEVER FORGET
- PREFACE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS. Skip →
- ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY.
- FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
- THREE LAWS OF MEMORY OR OF THINKING.
- THE BRAIN TONIC EFFECT OF THE LAWS OF MEMORY RIGHTLY APPLIED.
- FIRST LAW OF MEMORY.
- SECOND LAW OF MEMORY.
- THIRD AND LAST LAW OF MEMORY.
- REMARKS ON THE THREE LAWS.
- A TRAINING EXERCISE IN ATTENTION.
- TRAINING THE INTELLECT TO STAY WITH THE SENSES.
- IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF ANALYSIS.
- HOW TO LEARN PROPER NAMES IN A CERTAIN ORDER OF SUCCESSION.
- FIRST GROUP. Period of Organisation and Consolidation.
- Remarks.
- SECOND GROUP. Period of Territorial Expansion and the Growth of Internal Dissension.
- Remarks.
- THIRD GROUP. Period of Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Remarks.
- ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS. A UNIQUE EXERCISE.
- NUMERIC THINKING. HOW TO NEVER FORGET FIGURES AND DATES.
- A Scientific Experiment.
- Exercises.
- HOW TO LEARN PROSE AND POETRY BY HEART.
- THE ANALYTIC SYNTHETIC METHOD APPLIED TO LONG SENTENCES.
- Another Example Fully Worked Out.
- A Long Legal Definition.
- Moderation Advised.
- Examples for Practice.
- INTERROGATIVE ANALYSIS USED FOR SHORT SENTENCES.
- The Same by Interrogative Analysis.
- Examples for Practice.
- POEMS LONG OR SHORT EASILY LEARNED BY HEART. Poe’s “Bells.”
- THE BELLS.
- APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC METHOD.
- ANALYTIC SUBSTITUTIONS. ANOTHER METHOD FOR REMEMBERING DATES AND FIGURES.
- RULES. Not to be glanced at or skipped, but to be carefully studied.
- HOW TO DEAL WITH DECIMAL FRACTIONS.
- How to Find words with Which to Translate Dates and Numbers.
- SYNTHETIC TRANSLATION OF FIGURES.
- ANALYTIC DATE AND NUMBER WORDS.
- DATES OF THE ACCESSION OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS.
- DATES OF THE ACCESSION OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS.
- EXPLANATIONS.
- NUMBER OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS.
- DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON.
- MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES.
- BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND SCIENCE.
- SPECIFIC GRAVITIES.
- RIVERS.
- MOUNTAINS.
- LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
- EARLY TRAINING IN FIGURES.
- WHAT MUST BE DONE FOR AN ACQUIRED ATTENTION.
- THOUGHTIVE UNIFICATIONS. CONNECTING THE UNCONNECTED.
- HOW TO HELP THE MEMORY.
- MODES OF ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS.
- EXAMPLES OF CORRELATIONS.
- ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS COMPARED.
- HOW TO MEMORISE A CORRELATION.
- ASSIMILATIVE ASSOCIATION AND MEMORY.
- RULES FOR MAKING CORRELATIONS.
- ISOLATED FACTS.
- HOW TO REMEMBER PROPER NAMES WHEN INTRODUCED.
- EXERCISES IN CORRELATING.
- LEARNING FOREIGN WORDS.
- HOW TO MEMORISE DATES, &c., WHERE YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE FACTS, &c.
- Serial Facts.
- ORDER OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS.
- EXERCISE.—CASES IN EVERY-DAY LIFE.
- SPEAKING WITHOUT WRITTEN OR PRINTED NOTES.
- EXERCISE.
- DISTANCES OF PLANETS FROM THE SUN.
- EXTRACTS FROM QUAIN’S ANATOMY. To be studied by none but Medical Students.
- POISONS AND ANTIDOTES.
- THE TWELVE PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES.
- PROTOPLASM.
- BOOKS LEARNED IN ONE READING.
- LEARN FIRST TO MAKE ABSTRACTS OF WHAT IS NEW TO YOU.
- HOW TO MAKE ABSTRACTS.
- One Hundred Events of the Victorian Era, learned by one careful Reading or Study.
- FIRST EXERCISE.
- SECOND EXERCISE.
- THIRD EXERCISE.
- FOURTH EXERCISE.
- FIFTH EXERCISE.
- SIXTH EXERCISE.
- ANALYSIS OF ONE HUNDRED EVENTS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA.
- A CONCLUDING REMARK.
- FOOTNOTES:
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