Enhancing Your Memory For Effective Learning

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We never forget!
Do you believe that?
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Memory Exercise
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You can remember anything if you organize it.
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Understanding Memory

• Storing information properly

• The brains information retrieval system

association, repetition, rehearsal mnemonic
devices

• Without rehearsal or use, information is
  forgotten

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3 Types of Memory

• Sensory memory gathered from 5 senses

• Short-term (working) memory limited to 5 9
  separate facts

• Long-term memory you can store retrieve
  anything.

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The true art of memory is the art of
attention.Samuel Johnson
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• Get Organized
• Get Active
• Pace Yourself

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Get Organized

• Get motivated
• Reduce interference
• Be selective
• Intend to remember

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• Learn from the general to the specific

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• Look for relationships among ideas
• How does it relate to the key idea?
• How does it relate to course goals?
• How does it relate to my personal goals?

• Create associations
• What do I already know about .?

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Get Active

• Move around in your environment
• Use graphics
• Draw
• Visualize
• Use flash cards
• Read, write, recite, review
• ASC tutoring

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The Benefits of Exercise

• Stimulates the senses
• Releases stress
• Improves sleep
• Enhances digestion
• Maintains strength
• All of the above positively impact memory.

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The Benefits of Exercise contd.

• Some evidence suggests that exercise is
  
• particularly effective for short-term memory.
• 20-minute daily walks may improve
• memory performance.

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• http//www.mathpower.com/tips.htm

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Use graphic organizers http//www.graphic.org/con
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Cluster Diagram
Matrix

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USING MNEMONIC DEVICES(neh-mon-ick)

• ACRONYMS

• LASER

light amplification by stimulated emission of
radiation

• NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• SCUBA

self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

• HOMES

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie Superior
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Mnemonics (contd.)

• Mediation

A type of mnemonic device in which you form
associations. Linking two items with a
third Peso pay-so One pays with money
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Mnemonics (contd.)

• Forming unusual exaggerated associations

Flashbulb memories (where were you when?)
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Pace Yourself

• Distribute learning
• Overlearn
• Use daylight
• Got attitude?
• Combine memory techniques
• Avoid short-term memory lapse
• Review

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Use It or Lose It!
REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW