Untrainability
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 The state or condition of being untrainable. uncountable
"How much ‘general’ or ‘transferred’ training of memory is left after deducting the effects of better methods of learning, better adaptation to the conditions of the tests, and special practice within the tests themselves? The authors have no means of telling how much, nor even if there is any. The doctrine of the untrainability of pure memory remains as little disproven by the work of Ebert and Meumann as by that of Winch."
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More examples"How much ‘general’ or ‘transferred’ training of memory is left after deducting the effects of better methods of learning, better adaptation to the conditions of the tests, and special practice within the tests themselves? The authors have no means of telling how much, nor even if there is any. The doctrine of the untrainability of pure memory remains as little disproven by the work of Ebert and Meumann as by that of Winch."
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