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Chapter 8 Memory

Discover powerful strategies to enhance your memory and improve your learning. Learn how to memorize essential information, personalize your study methods, and evaluate your recall. Maximize your memory potential with these proven techniques.

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Chapter 8 Memory

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  1. Chapter 8Memory

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. The Secret of Memory – Work 8-7

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

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