The Trained Memory

Chapter I. 4The Elements of MemoryChapter II. 6The Mental Treasure Vault and its Lost CombinationChapter III. 23The Mechanism of RecallChapter IV. 30The Laws of Recall Chapter V 39The Science of Forgetting Chapter VI. 46The Fallacy of Most Memory SystemsChapter VII. 52A Scientific Memory System for Business SuccessTHE ELEMENTS OF MEMORYFour Special Memory Processes You have learned of the sense-perceptive and judicial processes by which your mind acquires its knowledge of the outside world. You come now to a study of the phenomenon of memory, the instrument by which your mind retains and makes use of its knowledge, the agency that has power to resurrect the buried past or power to enfold us in a Paradise of dreams more perfect than reality.In the broadest sense, memory is the faculty of the mind by which we (1) retain, (2) recall, (3) picture to the mind’s eye, and (4) recognize past experiences.Memory involves, therefore, four elements, Retention, Recall, Imagination and Recognition.