How to Use Your Mind/Index

by Harry D. Kitson

Layout 2

INDEX

1. Acquisition, vs. "construction," 135, 144, 159
2. Activity, mental, 23
3. Association, laws of, 83; in memory, 104, 107; in reasoning, 147, 128, 199, 203; in examination, 220
4. Attention, 177ff; fluctuation of, 121; resistance of distractions, 122ff; lapses of, 127ff
6. Bibliographies, 37f
7. Bodily activities, in recognition, 114; distractions in attention, 122, 124, 224
8. Brain, description of, 43; elementary cells, 44; tissue, properties of, 47ff, 58; tracts, 50ff; areas 51
10. Charlemagne, 127
11. Clarification of ideas, through definition and classification, 148; through expression, 167
12. Classification of ideas, 150
13. Class room, 18, 159
14. College, difficulties, 17ff; demands of, 20
15. Constructive study, 135, 144
16. Cramming, 214ff
18. Day dreaming, 166, 221, 222
19. Decision, in reasoning, 143, 150ff
20. Definition, 149
21. Distractions, in attention, 121ff, 132; in sleep, 239ff
22. Dreams, 241
23. Drinking, 233
25. Ennui, 203
26. Ethical, consequences, of habit, 72; of expression, 157
27. Examinations, importance, 212; purposes of, 212, 213 preparation for, 219ff
28. Exercise, 242
29. Expression, 154; neural basis, 155
31. Fasting, 235
32. Fatigue, 124f, 200, 208, 226
33. Feelings, pleasurable, 171; unpleasant, 202, 232
34. Fletcher, Horace, 225
35. Food, 224ff
37. Geometry, 137ff
38. Golf, 178
39. Graphic methods, 160; in measuring learning, 184
41. Habit, defined, 57; maxims for forming, 64ff, 127; advantages of, 70ff; disadvantages of, 69; in reasoning, 151; of resisting fatigue 210f
42. Ideas, in reasoning, 146ff; how to clarify, 149; in fatigue, 203; stimulus of, 209
43. Idea-motor action, law of, 156
44. Image, defined, 76; kinds of, 77
45. Imagination, 76; made of images, 77; works of, 78f; sources, 78f; how to develop, 79ff; visual, auditory, etc., 90
46. Impression, guard avenues of, 61ff; clearness essential, 86; through various senses, 87; vs. expression, 154, 163
47. Indenture, 175ff
48. Intention, in memorizing, 108
49. Insomnia, see Sleeplessness
50. Inspiration, 78, 222
51. Interest, defined, 170; sources, 171f; development of, 173ff; laws of, 173ff, 208
53. Judgment, 142
55. Kinæsthetic impressions, 87, 162f
57. Lecture, method, 18; notes, 27ff
58. Logical associations, in memorizing, 104, 107, 128; in reasoning, 147
60. Mediæval history, 170, 177, 179
61. Memory, importance instudy, 85; stages of, 85; "unconscious," 97f, 220; "whole" vs. "part," 103; works according to law, 115; "rote" vs. "logical," 105; intention, 108
62. Mental second wind, see second wind
64. Nervous, current, 46, 58f; energy, 164; system in expression, 161
65. Neurone, 205
66. Note-taking, lecture, 27; laboratory, 38; reading, 33; full vs. scanty, 27ff; form of notebook, 39ff; a habit, 42
68. Obscurity, in meaning, 128
69. Outlines, 30f
70. Overlearning, 92
72. Parker, Francis W., 177
73. Philology, 174ff
74. Plateau, 183, 187; remedies for, 192
75. Pleasure, in interest, 171
76. Practice, of recall, 112; curve of, 184
77. Problem solving, 139, 143
78. Psalm of life, 105
79. Public speaking, 112; overcoming embarrassment, 165ff
81. Rathausmarkt, 108
82. Read, how to, 33ff
83. Reason, contrasted with rote learning, 134ff; as problem solving, 139; stages, 139ff; purposive thinking, 139ff; requirements for, 145ff; and habit, 151
84. Recall, 111f
85. Recognition, 113ff
86. Repetition, 91; distribution of, 93ff, 101
87. Retention, 110
88. Review, from notes, 31ff, 114, 194, 223
89. Romeo and Juliet, 78
91. Schedule, daily, 21, 24
92. Second wind, physical, 195; mental, 196; sources of, 197ff, 206
93. Sensation, as impression, 86ff; bodily, 121; external, 122; in fatigue, 202
94. Sleep, 227, 236ff
95. Sleeplessness, 238
96. Stream of thought, 120, 130
97. Suggestion, 222
98. Synapse, 46
100. Theme writing, 99f, 109, 166, 179
102. "Unconscious" learning, see memory
104. Will, 209
105. Writing, a form of expression, 160