Chapter 8 Memory
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The Secret of Memory – Prepare 8-2 • Memorize what you need to memorize and forget the rest • A text of 20,000 words may only have 20 main ideas and 10 key words. This is what you need to memorize. • Write down what is critical. This helps you remember it. • Take a broad view of the material to determine what is important to remember
The Secret of Memory – Organize 8-3 • Personalize information • Learn by place • To jog your memory, re-create the place and conditions when you first learned the material • Try to learn some of your material in the room where you will be tested
The Secret of Memory – Work 8-4 • Use proven strategies to memorize new material • There are dozens of techniques • No one strategy works by itself • Devise your own strategies
The Secret of Memory – Work 8-5 • Rehearsal • Key strategy in remembering information • Repeat, summarize, associate it with other memories, and think about the information when you first come across it • Mnemonics • Acronyms • Acrostics • Rhymes and jingles • Method of Loci • Sections of speeches are imagined to be located in different parts of a building
The Secret of Memory – Work 8-6 • Peg method • Uses keywords tied to digits 1-10 to recall information • Use multiple senses • Sound and smell can trigger memories • Use your body when learning: stand, move, touch the page • Draw and diagram • Visualize
The Secret of Memory – Work 8-8 • Think positively • Recognize your feelings – this will help in overcoming negative ones • Overlearning • Permits us to recall the information without having to think about it • Make the information really familiar
The Secret of Memory – Evaluate 8-9 • Testing your recall • Use in-text review questions and tests • Test yourself • Write your own test questions • Review what you did not know • Team up with a friend or study group
The Secret of Memory – Rethink 8-10 • Consolidating memories • Memories that come from cramming do not last • Return to the material even when you think you have it down • Wait several days to review • Rethinking the material helps you to see where you still need to study