Tip-of-Tongue Quandaries
Brown: Mind Files Words
Someone hits his head with his hand trying to recall a word. "It's right on the tip of my tongue," he says. "I'll come to me. Just wait a minute."
Correspondence Study Ruling Gives KU State Responsibility
Roger Brown, professor of social psychology at Harvard, studies just such people.
Brown, speaking before an overflow crowd in the Forum Room of the Union, related some of the findings he made while conducting an experiment on "tip-of-the-tongue states." The experiment was performed with the aid of 56 Harvard and Radcliffe college students.
key word. The children were then asked to pick from this series a word similar to the key word. Chiefly, he said, the children retained the initial letter.
Brown compared the mind's filing system to perforated cards.
"FOR THE PERSON in a tip-of-the-tongue-state there may be an incomplete entry (in the mind)," he said. He explained this by saying the person in such a state may remember the first letter, "s," and the last, "t," in the word sextant, but may not be able to recall the middle letters, thus leaving an incomplete word, Brown called this "a gap with a shape."
"Words are entered on more than one card and on some cards words are complete and some are incomplete. Retrieving (the words) is the problem," Brown said,
STRESSING THE first and last letters of a word. Brown said the cause of partial recall could be a person does not pay attention to the "distribution of information" in each word.
According to a ruling made by the Kansas Board of Regents, KU will be assigned the responsibility of administering the correspondence study program throughout the state. It will come into effect
Brown explained the first and last letters are the most important to recall, especially the first. In way of explanation he offered an experiment which had been performed with small children concerning reading ability. The children were given a series of words, each containing a letter of the
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Under the present system, five of the six state institutions are offering this 18-month study program.
Oliver Phillips, director of correspondence study. Department of Extension, said, "KU has had the largest enrollment for the past 50 years. Almost 50 per cent of all students taking courses by correspondence are taking them from KU. About 6,000 students are taking correspondence courses in the state. Of these, 2,500 are presently enrolled at KU."
T. H. Walker, director of the University Extension, who is in charge of organizing the new plan, will meet with heads of major subject areas from KU, K-State, Emporia State College, Pittsburg State College, Fort Hays State College and Wichita University. Committees are presently being set up in the fields of Mathematics, English, and Education. These committees must agree on what courses to offer and how many credits will be counted for each course. In addition, the courses decided upon must be acceptable to each of the state schools.
Under the new system, KU will provide materials, exams and graders. Counselors will remain at the other five state institutes to accept enrollment applications.
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