Simplified Systems to Remember

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Simplified Systems to Remember
Presented by Rosanne Joseph
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Two kinds of Memory Tasks

• Understand Ideas
• When things are understood---they are well on
  their way to being remembered

• Remember Facts
• Knowing just facts does not mean you understand

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Some subjects are more likely to have verbatim
memorization

• Math
• Science
• Lines in a play
• Foreign language

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Some subjects focus more on ideas rather than
exact facts

• Social Studies
• Literature

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Making Mental Pictures

• Why we forget.
• Interference
• Repression-excluding from consciousness
• How to remember
• Aware of it
• Want it
• Do it
• Practice it

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To remember ideas is to understand ideas

• Introduction SummaryUnderstanding
• Understanding increases memory of main ideas
  and concepts
• When you understand the key words and ideas in
  the title, introduction and summary youll be
  able to remember the concepts taught
• Reading the questions before gives you a purpose
• Pictures, charts, graphs and maps helps you
  understand
• Understanding helps you remember

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Remember Ideas

• Think about what you are trying to learn
• The table of contents /or syllabus can be a big
  help!
• Use key words to help you explain/teach a lesson
• Use Mind maps-Use graphic symbols, pictures,
  charts, graphic organizers to demonstrate ideas,
  procedures and logically sequence events

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More ways to remember ideas

• Learn by doing
• Talk while you learn
• Move while you learn
• Link to your mnemonic
• Use mental outline to transition from main ideas,
  sub topics and key points

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Rote study vs. understanding study

• Study to remember facts is different than study
  to understand ideas and concepts

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Mnemonics Aids to remember rote facts

• The art of assisting memory by using a system of
  artificial aids-rhymes, rules, phrases, diagrams,
  acronyms to help in the recall of names, dates,
  facts and figures
• Comes from the Greek word mneme (memory) and
  mnemon (mindful)
• Greek goddess of memory and mother of the Muses
  was Mnemosyne

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Mnemonics

• Exaggerated
• Humorous
• Ridiculous
• Hooked to simple things you can remember

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Memorize Verbatim

• Concrete imagery -unrelated to the subject
• Can learn independently from understanding the
  main idea of instruction
• Can practice in short spurts and drills

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Remember Verbatim

• Mnemonic techniques are more specific memory aids
• Although it can be easiest to remember those
  things that you understand well, sometimes you
  must rely on rote memory

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Mnemonic Technique ACRONYM

• Form a new word from the first letter of a group
  of letters
• Good if need to be in a specified order
• Bummer
• can be forgotten if not written down
• May be hard to think of one that sticks

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Acronym Examples

• National Basketball Association
• Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
• Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of
  Radiation
• Four kinds of fossils
• 1 Actual remains
• 2 Petrified
• 3 Imprint
• 4 Mold or casts
• Great Lakes

• NBA
• SCUBA
• Laser
• RePICm
• HOMES

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Mnemonic device ACROSTICS

• Form new sentence with first letter of each word
  you are trying to remember

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Acrostic Examples

• Order of Operations
• Classification of Species
• Planets

• Please excuse my dear Aunt Sue
• Kids have dropped over converting metrics
• My Very Earthy Mother just served us nine pizzas

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Mnemonic Device Rhymes Songs
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Examples of Rhymes Songs

• Alphabet
• Months of the year
• Spelling situations
• Math formulas

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Mnemonic Method of Loci

• Construct a familiar path and imagine it
• walk it in your mind and visualize the
  landmarks
• Mentally associate piece of information with the
  landmark
• Good for sequence, procedure items

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Mnemonic Chunking

• Common rule
• Remember _at_ 7 items in short term memory
• Decrease the number of items you are holding in
  memory and increase the size of the item.

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Mnemonic The Peg system

• Have an item to represent 10 pegs
• Imagine the items to remember attached to each
  peg
• Mental visualization is the key

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Mnemonic Association

• Combine new information with something you
  already know

• 2 ss in dessert because you want 2 helpings of
  dessert
• CHOU dynasty
• Chows are fierce
• Believe power from God
• Iron age

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Remembering Names

• Concentrate
• Isolate
• Syllabicate
• Associate
• Pronunciation

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Break up the information

• Learn one group at a time
• Repeat and practice
• Review randomly during your day
• Note cards are good for this

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Remember!

• Mnemonics help you remember facts but they do NOT
  aid your comprehension
• Seek first to understand then to memorize!

facts
ideas