PERSISTENT MEMORY
SUBJECT OF THESIS
Dr. Harold R. Crosland Writes
for Doctor’s Degree.
TIME ELEMENT IS CITED
Court Room Testimonies Used
As Illustrations.
“If a student is taking an examina
tion.” says Dr. Harold R. Crosland of
the department of psychology, “and has
difficulty in deciding which of several
memories is the correct one in answer
to some, question, he can determine the
matter hy observing the behavior of the
memories as they come to the mind.
“Changing. fluctuating memories.”
continued Dr. Crosland, “are very mean
ingfid in the process of separating the
correct, memories from the chaff. If ■
memory comes quickly, clearly, and ig
an organized manner, and persists in the
mind in the same form, it may he re
garded as more nearly correct than the
memories which come to the mind slow
ly. in detached, disorganized fashion.”
This is one of the points brought out
by Dr. Crosland in his thesis for the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy from
Clark University, Worcester, Mass. He
lias just received printed copies of the
thesis which is entitled “A Qualitative
Analysis of the Process of Forgetting,”
and is contained in a 159 page book
published by the Psychological Review
company, in a series called “Psychologi
cal Monographs.” Dr. Crosland began
to work on his thesis in the fall of 1914
and finished the experimental work in
191(1. Rewriting and revision of the
manuscript was finished in January of
‘•The thesis.” Dr. Croslaud sand, “i*
an attempt to find out what changes
take place in remembered materials as
time passes. It is a study of the dis
solution and disintegration of differ
ent kinds of memories—hearing mem
ories. visual memories, muscular mem
ories. emotional memories, etc.—and an
attempt to find out which memories are
forgotten soonest. T tried to determine
too. what details of a given class of
memories dropped out first.”
There is included, also, a study of the
distorting and re-assembling of material
iu the mind—the manner in which old
concepts are confused and reorganized
with newer memories. Dr. Crosland
mentioned as an example of this; the
sworn testimony of witnesses in the
court room. A witness will swear that
certain things are true as he remembers
them: at a later time, he will again
swear that certain things are true. But
his memories have been altered by pre
conceptions in his mind, and his second
statement of events differs materially
from the first. A third testimony or
tlie same matter reveals that still
greater changes and reconstructions
have occurred in the memory, and yet
the witness will each time swear that hi
remembers and is giving the exact facts
Many students exhibit this same tend
ency in their ‘cocksumics:;’ that they
remember things told them by an in
structor. In reality, they have reor
ganized das room material with some
preconception along the same line.
“If a person has learned a certain
thing having a dominant meaning, the
details are apt to be made over to con
form to the central idea, or to be for
gotten. On the other hand, if smaller
details are not closely related to the
central idea, they are apt to survive in
dependently.”
The belief has prevailed that pleasant
memories are retained more clearly than
unpleasant ones. “I found in my inves
tigation as far as I carried it,” Dr. OTos
land stated, “that there is no co-relation
between pleasantness' or unpleasantness
and fidelity of memory.
“Of all memories,” continued Dr.
Crosland, “the kind least altered by for
getting is the kinaesthetic, or muscular
memory. This has its application in
pedagogy iu the Tearitfng by doing'
idea.”
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