Memory

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Four Categories of Memory
Techniques
Organize it
Use your body
Use your brain
Recall it
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Organize It
Learn from the general to the specific
Make it meaningful
Create associations
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Use Your Body
Learn it once, actively
Relax
Create pictures
Recite and repeat
Write it down
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Reduce interference
Over-learn
Escape the short-term memory trap
Use your times of peak energy
Use Your Brain
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Distribute learning
Be aware of attitudes
Give your secret brain a chance
Combine memory techniques
Use Your Brain
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Recall It
Remember something else
Notice when you do remember
Use it before you lose it
Remember, you never forget!
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Increase your attention
Reduce interference
Think out loud
Use your whole body
Use a cheat sheet
Deal with distraction
Know when to get help
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Use Q-Cards
Questions on Q-cards draw on both lower-
and higher-order thinking
Encode material in different ways
Activate more areas of your brain
Add pictures to the cards
Read and recite aloud
Carry with you all the time
Create a card for each new concept within
24-hours
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Set a Trap for Your Memory
Link what you want to remember
to something else
An object
A ritual
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Memory Traps:
Link to Something Else
An imaginary image
or visual cue
Telephone hanging
on door
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Remembering Names
Recite and repeat in conversation
Ask other person to recite and repeat
Visualize
Admit you dont know
Introduce yourself again
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Remembering Names
Use associations
Limit number of new names you learn at
one time
Ask for photos or lists
Make it a game
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Mnemonic Devices
New words (acronyms)
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Roy G. Biv
Red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo, violet
(colors of visible spectrum)
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Mnemonic Devices
Creative sentences (acrostics)
Every good boy does fine
Musical notes on treble clef staff
(E, G, B, D, and F)
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Mnemonic Devices
Rhymes and songs
Its the real
thing
Thirty days
hath
September
In fourteen
hundred and
ninety-two
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Mnemonic Devices
Systems
Loci system: create visual associations
with familiar locations
Peg system: associate key words
with numbers
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Potential Limitations
of Mnemonic Devices
They dont always help you understand
material
They can be complicated to learn
or develop
They can be forgotten