Despre memorie. Studii originale de psihologie pedagogică

The work On Memory. Original studies of pedagogical psychology by the renowned psychopedagogue Ştefan Velovan (1852-1932) saw the light of day in Craiova, more than a century ago where he was a teacher at the Boys' Normal School. Following Herbart's line, Ştefan Velovan maintained the laws of association at the basis of soul life, considering that without their existence psychology cannot become a science in the positive sense of the word, i.e. a science of laws. Psychologist Ştefan Velovan defines memory as "that faculty of the soul or that power of the soul in which the produced ideas are preserved until reproduction. Memory begins when the ideas are produced. [They] are preserved in the subconscious and end with their reproduction in the conscious." Regarding memory, he established four types of memory: 1) Distinctive or analytical memory; 2) Similar or synthetic memory; 3) Comprehensive and faithful memory, and 4) Easy and lasting memory. In this taxonomy of memories, Velovan was convinced that "all memory exercises, judicious (that is, intelligent) and mechanical, psychologically possible, are included, so that the memory can be perfectly cultivated." The use of logical memorization is based on the understanding of rational relationships, causality, laws, removing formal learning, in the sense that it memorizes both the verbal form and the logical content, it is efficient and much more necessary than the mechanical one. In logical memorization, thinking is very active, making associations between data and their integration into systems of knowledge, skills and abilities that for the student will no longer degenerate into the ordinary, formalistic routine of misunderstood imitations. Adrian Michiduţă