TESTING ABILITY TO OBSERVE, REMEMBER AND REPORT THINGS SEEN
A SCIENTIFIC MEMORY SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS
Chapter VII
A SCIENTIFIC MEMORY SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS
Importance of Associates We recall things by their associates. When you set your mind to remember any particular fact, your conscious effort should be not vaguely to will that it shall be impressed and retained, but analytically and deliberately to connect it with one or more other facts already in your mind.
The student who "crams" for an examination makes no permanent addition "Cramming" and "Willing" to his knowledge. There can be no recall without association, and "cramming" allows no time to form associations.