Study Skills Workshop Memory Techniques

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Study Skills WorkshopMemory Techniques
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Memory

• The power and process of reproducing and
  recalling what has been learned and retained

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Types of Memory

• Semantic Words and Symbols
• Implicit How to
• Remote Data collected over time
• Working Extremely short-term, lasting
  momentarily
• Episodic Recent experience

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The way I learn affects how I remembered

• Visual Learners
• Write things down because you remember them
  better
• Copy over your notes. Rewriting helps
• Use color
• Write vocabulary words on index cards. Use colors

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The way I learn affects how I remembered

• Auditory Learners
• Try studying with somebody so you can talk and
  hear the information
• Recite out loud what you want to remember
• Write vocabulary words on index cards and review
  them frequently by reading them aloud

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The way I learn affects how I remembered

• Haptic Learner
• To memorize, pace or walk around while reciting
  or looking at a list
• Close your eyes and write the information in the
  air or on a desk.

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You never forget

• Your brain never loses anything
• Forgetting it is either the inability to recall
  stored information or the failure to store
  information in the first place
• The things that interest you

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We Remember

• 10 of what we read
• 20 of what we hear
• 30 of what we see
• 50 of what we see and hear
• 70 of what we say
• 90 of what we say and do

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Process of Memory

• Attention and Selection
• Encoding
• Storage
• Retrieval

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Attention and Selection

• The first process of memory is attention. There
  is much more information in your environment than
  you can process at any given time. You must make
  choices (conscious and unconscious) regarding
  what you will attend to and store in your memory

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Encoding Receiving information

• How are memories formed?
• It refers to translating incoming information
  into a mental representation that can be stored
  in memory
• You can encode the information on a number of
  different ways
• According to sound (acoustic code)
• What it looks like (visual code)
• What it means (semantic code)

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Storage Retention of information

• It is the process of holding information in your
  memory
• Short-Term vs. Long-Term Memory
• Transfer from Short to Long-term
• Repeating the information
• Practicing
• Thinking about it deeply (elaborate) drawing
  connections between what you are trying to
  remember and the other things that you are
  familiar to you

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Retrieval recall or recognition

• It is the process of actually remembering
  something when you want to

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Memory Techniques

• Learn from the general to the specific
• Make it meaningful
• Create associations
• Learn it once, actively
• Relax
• Recite and repeat

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Memory Techniques

• 7. Create pictures
• - draw diagrams, mind maps
• - create action
• - make pictures vivid
• - turn abstract ideas into concrete actions or
  images

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Memory Techniques

• 8. Write it down (outline, 3x5 cards, summary)
• 9. Reduce interference
• 10. Over learn
• 11. Escape the short-term memory trap
• 12. Use daylight
• 13. Distribute Learning
• 14. Be aware of attitudes

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Memory Techniques

• 15. Choose what not to store in memory
• 16. Combine memory techniques
• 17. Remember something else
• 18. Notice when you do remember
• 19. Use it before you lose it
• 20. Remember, you never forget.
• 21. Grouping by category, alphabet,
• chronological order

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Memory Techniques

• 22. Create abbreviations
• 23. Visualize
• 24. Review
• 24 hrs after learning takes place
• 10 minute review reinforces one hour class
• periodically to move material from short- to
  long-term memory

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Mnemonics

• Are methods for remembering information that is
  otherwise quite difficult to recall
• A word or a sentence which is intended to be
  easier to remember than the thing it stands for.

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MNEMONIC DEVICES

• Acronyms words created from the initial letters
  of a series of words
• NASA National Aeronautics and Space
  Administration
• Acrostics sentences that help you remember a
  series of letters that stand for something
• Every Good Boy Does Fine (E,G,B,D and F)

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Mnemonic Devices

• Rhymes and Songs Make a rhyme or a song of the
  facts
• Alphabet (Twinkle, Twinkle little Star)
• Loci Systems creates visual associations with
  familiar locations. It can also help you
  remember things in a particular order
• Peg Systems employs key words represented by
  numbers
• Example 1bun, 2shoe, 3tree, 4door

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Remembering Names

• Recite and repeat in conversation
• Ask the other person to recite and repeat
• Visualize
• Admit you dont know
• Introduce yourself again
• Use associations

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Remembering Names

• Limit the number of new names you learn at one
  time
• Ask for photos
• Go early
• Make it a game