Memory 1) You don’t have to be in the same exact situation to remember a related item in another situation. You can use 1 memory anywhere regardless of your feelings. Yes, you will definitely remember a little better, if you’re wearing ever ything the same, and you’re in the same place. BUT it’s not necessary. They showed me the definition of geocentric staffing; and I can tell it to you now: geocentric staffing – staffing – seeks the best people for key jobs throughout throu ghout the organization, regardless of nationality. one one error … I guess… but nonetheless almost identical!... 2) the more techniques you use the more powerful your memory is 3) try saying things from a super high voice to a super low voice. 4) use colors whenever you can !!! super effective!
The Memory Memory Trail Where one is strongly tempted to just remember where the y put data, but instead follows the most certain trail of memory.
8 Memory mo ry Hack cks s 0. best memory technique is just plain doing your homework
Here are 8 ways to make information cement in your mind: 1. Acronyms I’ve used acronyms throughout my college and grad school career. They’ve helped me memorize information for class presentations, and helped me memorize details for ex ams. An acronym is simply a word wherein each letter represents another word. For example: HOMES (The Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) 2. Acrostics Acrostics are sentences in which the first letter of each word helps you remember items in a series. For example: Zoe Cooks Chowder Cho wder In Pink Pots in Miami (The Essential Minerals: Zinc, Calcium, Chromium, Iron, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iodine, Magnesium). 3. Act it Out Use your acting ability to make a connection with the material you’re trying to learn. For example: reenact a dialog between two historic figures – figures – or or carry on a debate between two different philosophers, politicians or literary critics. 4. Categories Organize information into broad categories to help you remember information faster. For example: Types of Joints in the Body (Immovable, Slightly Movable, Freely Movable).
5. Peg Words Develop a chain of associations between whatever list you need to memorize and a peg word. Peg words are associated with numbers (e.g. z ero is hero; one is a bun; two is a shoe; three is a tree; four is a door; five is a hive; six is sticks; seven is heaven; eight is a gate; nine is wine; and ten is a hen). Here’s how peg p eg words work with the atomic numbers in a periodic table: (1) Imagine a hydrogen hotdog on a bun; (2) Imagine a helium shoe balloon; (3) Imagine a lit tree on fire (lithium); (4) a door made of berries (beryllium); (5) a hive with bored bees (boron); and the list can go on. The odd pairing helps you memorize information quickly. 6. Rhymes Make up a silly rhyme or pun to help you memorize information. For example: Brown vs. Board of Education ended public-school segregation. 7. Recordings Make a recording of yourself giving a lecture about the subject you’re studying. Th is is especially helpful for foreign language classes or a vocabu lary section on a standardized test. 8. Visualizations Turn an abstract idea into an image of something that is as specific as possible. For ex ample, visualize a scene from a historic period. Make it as real as possible in your mind. Use all your senses and imagine what it must smell like, feel like, etc. The more specific you are, the more you’ll remember.
more memory techniques are: a. selecting a key word and memorizing the central idea behind it; Picturing details as well as a story about it. b. when imagining, imagining, use all your your senses c. intend to remember d. link the new information to old information e. overlearn. f. talk to yourself yourself after studying material. g. try studying studying note cards h. repeat what you need to know
(1) www.Google.com helps a lot! (2) Forget about what you’re friends give you. Friends do not know how to get the marks you get and if you copy their answers or listen to them, you will have incongruence with your normal grade A work. (3) Talk to the teachers! The teachers are the people that are giving you the marks right? Well if you meet up with them enough you’ll learn of their standards or even better, get on their good side. An assignment that you normally hand in would probably look like a 50% in their eyes. But now that they know you, it probably looks like a 78%. Sweet! (4) Attend class. (5) Time your questions while you study. If you finish early, take a nap. Time the nap, and then when it’s over get back to studying. Rinse, wash, repeat! This is thee way to be an effective student. (6) Baby Steps: always do questions slowly, never rush them. They’re like learning a bboy move. (at the same time don’t waste time) Find a balance!!! (7) A great way to study is to open up lecture slides for the chapter (and if you’ve been to class enough), then you can listen to the voice of the teacher in your head as he or she reads the information on the slides. (hint: imagine it’s as real as possible) (8) wake your body up - I need to wake up while I’m studying. Sometimes I’m so sleepy like my face feels dead, it doesn’t feel alive. It might be a good idea to exercise before you attack the homework; HOWEVER if you have already begun the homework finish it because you are just wasting time if you haven’t. TRY SHAKING YOUR FACE. (9) If you cheat, cheat properly. Ok so for my law class, I wrote the answers down in mnemonic format. And for Accounting this didn’t help at all: I wrote down the answers in light pencil on the back of my calculator so the teacher didn’t see but nor did I. The technique
was flawed because everytime I’d look if anyone, ANYONE, saw my eyes they would know I’m looking at the cheat sheet. The best thing to do of course is put a piece in your ear. (10) Aside from cheating you could just become an EXCELLENT student. (11) Do only what you have to when you’re super tired. But do it well. (12)
When studying questions for class/exam/test/whatever... if you have the time, pu t the questions in your own words. That wa y you will not only remember the answer (you put in your own words) BUT also the question.
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Don’t Reward yourself, until the task is complete
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When you’re getting it right, continue with your roll until you’re finished your homework.
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Study ahead of class by studying a week ahead.
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Study ahead of class reviewing slides carefully.
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Know more than the teacher.
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-sleep is the perfect break
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be smart - when you're doing statistic questions, don't actually write out all the numbers, IT"S A WASTE OF TIME, when you get the exam do it .. but for now.. USE THE FORMULAS. AND IFYOU HAVE EXTRA TIME THEN write out all the numbers.
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Get good sleep
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Read instructions/assignments/questions carefully.
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Always do calculations with a calculator! (then check your calculations with your mind)
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Use short forms AMAP
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Once you get homework assume the day it’s due is tomorrow.
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Sometimes making a windows xp folder with SQRWs inside HELPS A LOT.<-new study technique!
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Statistics – very clear, he wants to see “every piece of the puzzle” all in record time. – justify your statements w/ data.
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Statistics – when you’re comparing #’s, the numbers are around the same size
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Statistics – whenever you’re looking at a table, YOU’RE ALWAYS LOOKING UP A LESS THAN
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Don’t let anything distract you
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If you don’t understand something continue reading further and you might understand it later
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Don’t fidget
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Breathe / Get in a relaxed position
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You’re not reading unless you’re doing all the SQRW Steps
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Always eat and drink away from the compu ter or away from your homework so you don’t get any of the food/drink on it.
(35)do your work as fast as possible
Memorizing t he number of days in each month of a year use the fist technique!
you only use the first four knuckles. it’s easy each knuckle is 31 days. the first one is 28. and the rest of the “valleys” are 30 days. /*********** Test jan. - 31 feb. - 28 mar.- 31 apr. – 30 may – 31 jun. – 30 jul. – 31 aug – 31 sept – 30 oct. – 31 nov – 30 dec. -31 It works perfectly!!! ***********/
THE AMAZING MEMORY BOOK … 3 keys to retaining interest and keeping focused: are setting ourselves goals, using our imagination, and understanding the things we learn. A - Aspire I - Imagine U – Understand AIU research has shown that we learn more effectively if we take in information at high speed – the faster we read, the less opportunity for our brain to become distracted.
“thirty days hath September, april, june, and November” mnemonic – devices help memory. mnemonics are codes or strategies linking new or abstract information with something more familiar, concrete, or interesting. to remember the date 1492, would be to learn the phrase a ship witnessed it. the trick here is that you count the number of letters in each word: 1,4,9,2. try using your trance words*** the trivia wizard. “similar to the one when remembering names and faces. by creating an image that sets each fact in an associated mental backdrop. then you need to revise what you have stored, not once but regularly. I have memorized thousands of trivial pursuit questsions… I have built in a trigger mechanism between the question and the answer. Ex. What is the name for a young pigeon answer: a squab – I see pigeons SQUABbling for crumbs on my window ledge. Ex. 2 What do psychicatrist call fear of crowds? AAnswer: demophobia – I see a mob DEMOnstrating in Palestine. What is a the collective name for a group of mules? answer a span – I see a line of baggage mules on a swaying rope bridge spanning a ravine in mexico. What is the name of Toronto’s main airport? answer: Pearson – I see a girl standing on an airport runway in TORrential rain, washing her face with PEAR’S soap. Golden Rule: if you review information five times, you will be able to recall it for life. I suggest that you revise your question-and-answer associations a da y or two after memorizing them and run through them again every few months you will be a “quiz whizz”! The Mapbook and the Deck
they’re supposed to work together 4 journeys 25 landmarks/stages each switch journeys by turning mapbook over. if you get good at memorizing 25 objects move up to 50 and then 100 by joining the journey maps. n. memory deck consists of 100 double-sided(objects, numbers) cards o. both sides of memory cards are intended to be used separately
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How it works?
- ex. country side to the shore. - choose: objects or numbers (ex. objects) - grab 25 objects from memory card deck - stack on table so numbers are upper - most open journey out in front of you.
- turn up first card, match object to first stage of journey (ex. catapult in the farmhouse) use your imagination to create a link between two. perhaps farmer is standing on farmhouse catapulting horse manure at you. then do the same with 2nd card and 2nd stage, etc. etc. while working through cards place cards in same order. You’ll need to refer back to them. After memorizing cards, look back at journey and go through it with a paper and pencil. it says to use the dominic system to convert numbers into personalities then link personalities imaginatively with a stage along the route. The DOMINIC System
DOMINIC – Decipherment of Mnemonically Interpreted Numbers Into Characters. -it’s for large numbers (10+ digits). I decided to turn figures into personalities by thinking of them first as letters, then as the intials of people’s names. I even tually came up with a 10-letter alphabet in which each letters stands for a digit from 0 to 9. by putting a 0 before each single digit – 00, 01, and so on – I made every number between 0 and 99 form a pair. When I converted the pairs into letters, I had a series of initials, which represented names I could remember vividly because they belonged to famous people or to friends or acquaintances. The most obvious number-letter system is A to I for 1 to 9, but I found that I associated some numbers more readily with other letters. So, the letters I use in my own number-letter code are A,B,C,D,E (as1-5), together with the letter O standing for 0. Then, S for 6 (because of the “s” sound) , G for 7 (after G7 group of economic powers), H for 8 (because it is the 8th letter of the alphabet,), and N for 9(again because of the sound). with these 10 associations, I was able to turn the figures from 0 to 99 into a hundred characters. I then realized that, with long sequence of numbers, there was no ndeed to add initial zeroes because the digits could be paired off. For example, you could transalate 236322287217 (12 digits) into the ix pairs of initials BC(23), SC(63, BB (22) , BH(28), GB(72) , AG (17). Let us say these intials suggested Bill Clinton, Sean Connery, Benjamin Britten, Bob Hoskins, George Bush, Al Gore. You could then fix the number In your mind by creating a sequential visualization around bill Clinton inviting sean connery to b ring benajamin britten and bob Hoskins to a reception organized for george bush by al gore. the unlikelihood of gore organizing a reception for bush would make such a mnemonic device all the more memorable. A good way to practice the dominic system is to memorize a list of dates. Say that you wish to remember the birthdays of six relatives. Sam, Penny, Helen, Tom, Mary and rob. arrange the dates by days then months, their birthday sfall on 13/02, 18/06, 22/10, 28/11 15/12. you translate these figures into the intial letters that identify people in your personality list: AC/OB (anton Chekhov and otto von Bismarck, AH/OS (Alfred Hitchcock and omar sharif), BS/OH (bram stoker and oliver hardy) BB/AO (Bridgette Bardot and Aristotle onassis), BH/AA (Bob Hope and Andre Agassi), AE/AB (Albert Einstein and Alexander Bell) then to memorize each relatives birthday, imagine a scene taking place in-or outside their house. For example , visualizing your uncle sam’s house. picture anton chekhove towing a battle ship which is otto von Bismarck associated prop, up the drive (nothat that here we combine the first personality with the second personalit’s prop) next you take a trip to your cousin penny’s hous,w here you head for the shower room to freshen up, only to find Alfred Hitchcock playing a game of bridge (omar sharif’s favorite pastime) there. Over at your aunt helen’s h ouse, you find bram strer, dressed as Dracula, in the master bedroom acting the fool – Oliver hardy’s profession. at cousin tom’s house you see bridgitte bardot sunning herself on a yacht in the garden ( the yacht,
of course, is associated with Aristotle onassis). over to great-aunt mary’s house now where you find bob hope playing tennis (andre agass’s profession) in the entrance hall. and finally at cousin rob’s apartment there is albert Einstein on a cell’ phone (Alexander bell invented the telephone) discussing the finer points of a brilliant new equation. A frequent quick review of these locations will en sure that you never forget your relatives’ birthdays again. *it came with a pack of 100 cards (each with a different image on it); the cards were use to exercise memory; but would be useful*
MAXIMISE YOUR MEMORY // Memory Wishlist: - I could remember a girls/guys name, then recalling their name would be easy. NOT REALLY DONE. - I could remember the list of moves I want to d o in my street show. DONE USING FRAMEWORKS. - Your body is continuously using some sort of memory - they are states in which anything is possible due to imagination - people think they don’t really need a great memory - I want to be able to remember moves/ names/ important information - because most people think their minds get weaker when they get older; that’s not the case for some w/ memory tech.s - no not when you use memory techniques - Oh they are tricks of the mind on yourself. Imagination is what you had when you were a kid’ and what the best memorizers use. When you try to memorize your brain has to be all over the familiar imagination. brain is made of billions of neurons 4 types of memory are: episodic (how one remembers episodes), semantic(how we remember things that make sense), procedural (how we remember procedures), prospective(and how we remember the past to predict the future; plans) humans love using their visual memory. and it WORKS!
we tend to remember unusual things and things that are connected. I suggest connecting unfamiliar things with familiar things. (AND DON”T HIDE THEM when visualizing) traumatic events cause us to remember things in long term.
information juggling – repeating something over and over in order to remember memory joggers – notes memory postures – states knowing anything is possible -shareshevsky thought of taking notes and bu rning them inorder to forget. (try to be like h im) -try transformations when remembering. -
cycle of success – is what successful memorizers go through frameworks are an easy way to memorize
pick any area you’re VERY familiar w/ and highlight 10 areas/ frames it can be more! works great if the path is linear and if the objects you put in them are linked together (or just close)… objects have to be placed where they normally would be. you remember what you repeat recently. use all your senses to make images vivid the number system 0=ball 1=pen 2=duck 3=1handcuff 4=sailboat 5=hook 6=cannon 7=lamp 8=snowman 9=ice cream + cone 10=door 11=railway tracks 12=clock create a story to remember anything u like. you can link many pictures to the # system
think about rewards think about ideal atmosphere break down school material into images and then use them in frameworks remembering directions is just putting left and right arrow images in a framework and u can remember shit fast ;) you can also put many images in one frame :D many languages are derived from: latin, gaelic, and English
HOW TO REMEMBER A PERSONS NAME - bring to mind a picture that the name suggests - exaggerate the picture - create some other link - connect the imagery with the other person 5 steps to delivering speeches from memory 1) decide what you want to say 2) pick out the key points 3) design picture clues 4) decorate your memory framework. 5) add more detail (add picture clues to remind you of names, facts, and dates try to think of images for each word imagine your success to remember the order of 52 cards use the 1 to 12 model, and for king just think of the type of the card it is. hearts: caring, love, human body… diamonds: riches, jewellery, craftsmanship, clubs: crime, weaponry, violence… spades: digging, and work
all 52 cards are here make a story to connect all cards. practice rememberiung groups of 5 or 4.
try to remember imagination stories forward and backwards. since you have to imagine with all senses; make sure your senses are sharp. even if you forget, keep trying to remember. memory relies on good sleep. fit people have better memories than fat peop le. memory foods: seadfood & fish, egg yolk, wh eat, soya beans, dairy products (cheese, milk, eggs), meats, rosemary, lemon blam Tactics for recovering memories 1) 2) 3) 4)
go back to the event concentrate on details think about mental pictures in different order change the perspective
combine logical thinking with imaginative thinking special place: my hands imagine things u want to remember for sure in there! feel free to get crazy with imagination
10 steps to make yourself memorable 1) help people remember your name 2) speak with pictures 3) organize your speech; provide a mental file card. 4) attack your audiences emotions 5) try to attack all their senses (have great >senses<) 6) people are most attractive at the beginning and end 7) rehearse 8) make handouts memorable 9) motivate people to remember u (N) 10) give people reminder cues try to remember your dreams in a framework talk about whatever you want to remember have a mental storehouse and refer to it when you’re completing goals/tasks combine memory techniques I remember sensible things. (combine the unfamiliar with the familiar)
// What to do when you’re sick of Homework (1) step 1 sleep for 10 minutes.
Improv ing Your Memor y.txt (GOOD SHIT) A&M Home>> SCS Home>> Self-Help>> Infosheets>> Improving Your Memory>> Improving Your Memory Myth: Most people remember fewer than 10% of the names of people that they meet. Fact: We remember the face, but we have made no real connection between the face and name. Myth: Most people forget 99% of the phone numbers given to them. Fact: Most people don’t really choose to remember most phone numbers. Myth: Memory is supposed to decline rapidly with age. Fact: Memory declines with age only if it is n ot used. It can improve throughout your lifetime. Myth: Most people confess to having a bad memory. Fact: Most people use the excuse of "only being human," because they
don’t know how to improve their memory. Our memories are far better than we give them credit!! Most people have dreams of family, friends, places, and situations that they may have not experienced in 10 to 30 years. Most of these images are perfectly clear with color and in great detail. Everyone has had the experience of turning a corner and suddenly recalling events from the past. A single smell, touch, or sound might at any time bring back a flood of memory. A Russian journalist named Shereshevsky never took or mad e notes. He could, however, listen to long speeches and recall line for line, word for word, what he had just heard. Scientists concluded that he was not a freak and did not have anything more than an average intelligence. Shereshevsky did use basic memory principles in his everyday life. Professor Rosenweigs studies in the 1970’s concluded that if our brains were fed 10 new items of information every second for the rest of our life, that we would never half fill our memory potential. While working on a side project, the noted Professor Penfield found that by electrically stimulating certain brain cells, his patients were vividly recalling happenings from their past. The memories included the smells, tastes, colors, noises, and movements associated with the happening. Professor Anokhin proved that memory is formed in small electrical patterns among the interconnecting cells of the brain. We know that the brain contains over a million million (1,000,00 0,000,000) cells. The possibility of different combinations or connections of memories between these cells is limitless. In near-death type happenings, most people confess to having "my whole life flash before my eyes." We laugh and tell them they probably just sorted through a few highlights. Studies show that most of these people are serious and that they even recalled events totally forgotten for many years. Studies show that if you are shown 1000 pictures at the rate of one picture per second, that you could, with 99 percent accuracy, pick those pictures out even if someone mixed in 100 new pictures that you had not seen. We all border on the limits of having a photographic memory. Memory techniques are not new and have been used since the time of the ancient Greeks. Recent studies show, ho wever, that if you can master any one technique and score 9 out of 10 on a standard test, that you will proportionally score 900 out of 1000 and so on. Memory techniques work across the board with different cultures studying different type subjects. Why don't we use our memory to its fullest potential? For some odd reason, we tag certain information and remember it
well. On the other hand, we poorly tag information that must be remembered and are never able to recall it. The "GIGO" syndrome does not work well for students at Texas A&M. Stude nts who poorly tag or attempt to put "Garbage In" will most certainly not be able to remember and will get "Garbage Out" at test time. If you have habits of losing things like eye glasses and car keys, or forget everything you study for tests, you probabl y are passively tagging these mental images. Things that are done and remembered as everyday ordinary occurrences have not been tagged in your memory as important. Memory that has not been tagged as important will in most cases be stored as FYI and your mind does not see the need to remember it with any authority. Tagging input information in different way to make it memorable is not a new concept. "Mnemonics," or memory enhancement techniques have been studied since the time of ancient Greeks and Romans. In the following pages, we will discuss several simple techniques that scholars and memory tricksters use to improve their memory abilities. The Link System The link system is the quickest and most simple to learn. It creates a memory foundation that makes learning advan ced systems easier. The link system is best used to positively tag information like shopping lists or class test lists. By using principles like imagination, symbolism, sight and touch we incorporate both left and right brain memory strengths. The key to connecting a ny series in a list is to tag each entry with as much information as possible. Making any list something unusual or bizarre keeps it from being routinely stored and easily forgotten. Example: Pick any list of items you wish to remember. It could be a shopping list or a listing of answers for a particular test. For my example, we will use a short shopping list. In most cases we forget to make or bring our shopping list. We then get home and remember exactly what we forgot to buy. Here’s our list. Hair comb 2 Glass tea pitchers Grapes 1 Bar of hand-soap Eggs Clothes detergent Dental floss Bread The Link System: Now imagine yourself walking out the front door with a large metal comb in your mouth. Feel the smoothness of the metal and then the point of each tooth on the comb. Balanced on that comb are two large tea pitchers that glimmer in the afternoon sun.
Hear the tinkling of the glass as each of your steps makes the pitchers bump together. You now hear a smushing sound and you stop. From under your shoe you see a river of grape juice and seeds flowing. The cuff of your jeans is now stained deep red. This alarms you and your first reaction is to step back. As you step back, you find your self on a foaming bar of soap in the shape of a surf-board. Now see yourself surfing on a sea of grape juice leaving a trail of suds from your soap surf-board. Feel the soap as it squishes up from between your toes. Smell the con trast of grape mist and clean soap aromas. Suddenly you take a big spill and now your clothes are all stained with grape juice. You’re now so nasty that you have to return home. Now you’re really tired. It took you 8 hours and 12 boxes of detergent to get that grape stain out of your favorite jeans. Tired, hungry, and out of detergent, you forge out to go shopping again. You’re really getting good at balancing the tea pitchers on that comb. So good that you will jump rope and balance the pitchers all the way to the mall. Can you guess what the jump rope is made of? If you guessed it was made of thousands of strands of dental floss, you were correct. See and feel the rope in your own mind. Now that you see how the Link System works, finish this story so that you can incorporate the last two items on our shopping list — bread and eggs. The Number-Shape System Most of us are fairly familiar with the numbers 1 through 10. Fo r each number, all of us can come up with an image or shape that (maps) reminds us of that number. For example, I can see a curved swan’s head and neck matching the curved top section of the number 2. Some people use a boat or sailboat for the number 4 because it looks like a boat’s sail. The key point is to associate a word that represents a specific number for you and onl y you. Examples: 1. = Paintbrush 2. = Swan 3. = Heart 4. = Boat 5. = Hook 6. = Elephant’s Trunk 7. = Cliff 8. = Hourglass/Time 9. = Stick & Balloon 10. = Bat & Ball The Number-Shape System: Let’s say you wanted to memorize this short list of items. This might be a grocery list or a list of possible answers for a major test.
Symphony Prayer Watermelon Volcano Motorcycle Sunshine Apple Pie Blossoms Spaceship Field of Wheat We would then construct this Number-Shape System: 1. (Paintbrush) The Symphony painted a good melody. 2. (Swan) He bowed his head in prayer like a swan. 3. (Heart) He loved Watermelon. 4. (Sailboat) We sailed away from the harbor as the Volcano erupted. 5. (Hook) He became hooked on Motorcycles. 6. (Elephant’s Trunk) Dumbo lifted his trunk towards the Sunshine. 7. (Cliff) I’d jump off a cliff for Mom’s Apple Pie. 8. (Hourglass) It took time for the Blossoms to bloom. 9. (Stick & Balloon) The Spaceship floated like a child’s balloon. 10.(Ball & Bat) Our old baseball field has been co nverted into a Field Of Wheat. These are, of course, the examples I would use. You must personalize your Number-Shape System to fit your own style. Your o wn system and images will tag the information you wish to remember in a much more efficient manner. The Number-Rhyme System The Number-Rhyme System works much like the Number-Shape System except we substitute sounds for images associated with the numbers 1 through 10. Examples: 1. = sounds like bun or sun. 2. = sounds like shoe or pew. 3. = sounds like tree or flea. 4. = sounds like door or poor. 5. = sounds like dive or drive. 6. = sounds like sticks or bricks. 7. = sounds like heaven or eleven (7-Eleven). 8. = sounds like skate or gate. 9. = sounds like line or wine. 10. = sounds like pen or men. The Number-Rhyme System: Lets say you wanted to memorize this short list of items. Again, this could be anything from a shopping list to a list of possible answers for a test.
1. Atom 2. Tree 3. Stethoscope 4. Sofa 5. Alley 6. Tile 7. Windscreen 8. Honey 9. Brush 10. Toothpaste We would then construct this Number-Rhyme System: 1. (Sun) The Atom blast glared brighter than the sun. 2. (Shoe) Not everyone owns a shoe Tree. 3. (Tree) The tree-doctor put a Stethoscope around the trunk. 4. (Door) We moved the Sofa near the door. 5. (Drive) We had to drive in the Alley. 6. (Bricks) The western house had bricks arranged like Tile on the floor. 7. (Eleven) The car drove through the Windscreen at the 7-Eleven. 8. (Bait) We used Honey as bait for the flies. 9. (Line) The artist used a fine Brush to p aint the line. 10. (Men) The shipwrecked men had not used Toothpaste in 2 years. This is again, an example I would use. The more vivid and/or ridiculous the rhymes are made will have a greater impact on how well your memory attempts to tag this information. Remember to personalize this system so that it fits your imagination and learning style. The Major System: How to remember Phone Numbers and Dates in History The Major System is the ultimate memory enhancement tool. It has been used, studied, and improved upon for nearly 400 years. This versatile system will allow you to memorize limitless lists of facts, dates and series of numbers. It also enables you to organize lists in a variety of orders, so that memorization is customized to best fit your learning style. The basic structure of the Major System is to designate consonant letter codes for the numbers 0 through 9. Example: 0 = s,z = s & z are the first sounds of the word "zero." 1 = d,t = d & t have one pen downstroke. 2 = n = n has two pen downstrokes. 3 = m = m has three pen downstrokes. 4 = r = r is the last letter in the word "four." 5 = l = the top of the number 5 is an "L." 6 = j,sh = j is the mirror image of the number "6."
7 = k,ch = k is shaped like two "7’s." 8 = f,v = f, when handwritten, has two loops like an "8." 9 = b,p = b & p are mirror images of the number "9." Examples: The Major System for Phone Numbers Your Tennis Partner640-7336= (7336/c,m,m,sh)= Can Make Masterful SHots Local Theatre869-9521= (9521/p,l,n,t)= Produce Laughter -NTears Favorite Restaurant354-6350= (m,l,r, - ch,m,l,s)= My Local Restaurant CHarges Moderate Lunch Specials Examples: The Major System for Appointments 10:00 am- Dentist fill cavity.= (10:00/d,s,s,s)= Dental Surgeon Saves Smile 9:20 pm- Movie with friend.= (9:20/p,n,c)= Preview New Cinema Examples: The Major System for Historical Dates. 1666= Great fire of London= (666/sh,sh,sh= aSHes,aSHes,aSHes 1454= First Printing Press= (454/r,l,r)= RoLloR 1789= French Revolution= (789,k,f,p)= King Fights People The more you practice the Major S ystem, the more powerful your memory will become. This system will strengthen both the short and long term memory. Increasing any memory will help you recall more data for tests. Other Tips for Memory The best system is one you customize and create yourself. When reading to remember, scan graphs, side-notes, margins, intro, and summary paragraphs. When Highlighting: Highlight areas you are not comfortable with. Single words or sentences that "define" headings. Skip explanations and extra examples. Also highlight your notes when possible. Understanding what the concept is saying or explaining helps increase long-term memory. When trying to remember words, it’s always helpful to see the pa rts or construction of the word rather than the whole word. Memorization is as easy as teaching yourself to "cue " and "review." The Roman Room System The Romans were great advocates of mnemonic systems. In their time, they created a system popularly called the Roman Room. Each Roman would detail a permanent vision of their own home within their mind. The home is a familiar place that each person generally visits several times a day. To this permanent vision the y would attach
items they wished to remember. Try to picture your present home’s front door in your mind. See the trim and fixtures like a Roman would see the stone entry-way and marble pillars of the olden Roman home. If you can’t visualize your own home, create a vision of what you might imagine as any Romans doorway might look like. Remember to alwa ys see your door and trim like the Romans’ pillars and stone archway. The Roman might, for example, have constructed his mental image of the entrance and front room with two gigantic pillars at either side of the front door, a carved lion’s head as the doorknob, and an exquisite Greek statue on the immediate left as he walked in. Next to the statue might be a large sofa with the fur of one of the animals the Roman had hunted. The Roman would then start a typical day by arranging a shortened list of things he/she wished to do and remember for that day. Let’s say that the Roman wanted to remember to buy a new pair of sandals, to get his sword sharpened, to buy a new house maid, and to finish the weeding in his grape vineyard. He would simply imagine the first pillar outside his doorway arranged with thousands of sandals, the leather polished and glistening in the sun, with the smell of fresh leather filling the air. He would imagine sharpening the sword on the second pillar, hearing the scraping with each stroke, feeling the edge as it gets sharper and sharper. The Roman would then pull on the ornate doorknob, revealing the front room, and looking to see if the new house maid had arrived yet. She would be there, sitting on the lion skin sofa, which would materialize into a raging lion that gave the servant a galloping ride over to the only statue in the room. The servant would then pluck a withered, discolored grape from the dense matting of vines that encrypt the statue. The servant would then say, "Sorry I cannot offer you better fruit, but the weeds have been so bad this year that the grapes will not grow any better than this!" Once you construct your Roman Room for each group of things you wish to remember, always mentally walk around that room a second time to familiarize yourself with the sequence, placing and positioning of all the items you place in that room. The Roman Room System eliminates all boundaries on your imagination and allows you to remember as many items as you wish. Many people find this to be their favorite memory system, and will make lists hundreds of items long to put in their gigantic Roman Room. Remembering People's Names One of the most important things we use our memory for is to recall people’s names. Although it’s important, most of us put ourselves in embarrassing situations where we can and do remember th e face, but cannot remember the name. Our recent ancestors were lucky enough not to have this problem. It was common knowledge that people who baked
bread were named "Baker." The same is true for "Blacksmiths," "Carpenters" and "Tailor’s." Today the name game is a little more complicated. In college, we meet people in large group settings and it is extremely difficult to remember just a few of the names for an y real length of time. Thankfully, there are two systems that can help us remember and connect the face to the name. Used correctly, each system builds and strengthens the other. The first system derives from the early colonial rules of social etiquette, and the secon d is taken from the Mnemonic Methods we have learned about earlier in this handout. The first or Social Etiquette System follows a series of steps that progress to the goal of remembering names for social interaction purposes. Whether for social or professional purposes, the steps will set an easily learned pattern that can help you start associating a particular name with the corresponding face. Don’t "know" that your memory is terrible and not attempt to really "hear" how each person’s name is pronounced. Greet people by looking them straight in the face. Look for one distinguishing feature such as hair, eyes, lips, nose, forehead, wrinkles or facial hair. Find something that makes this person unique. Listen to "how" this person’s name is pronounced. Always ask to repeat the name. "Did you say Joe Smith?" If the name still puzzles you, ask for the correct spelling. If you were panicked by introducing yourself, this is a good way to hear the name again without being totally obvious Find closure with steps #4 and #5. Make sure that you can spell or say their name. Exchange business cards if you can. You then have a hard copy for review. Repeat that person’s name in conversation as muc h as possible. "John, do you know Joe Smith? Joe is a business major from Houston." During any pauses in the conversation, internally repeat that person’s name to yourself. During longer breaks, step back and recite each persons name along with the facial characteristic that helps you to remember them. When the group breaks up or you leave, use that person’s name in your farewell. "Well Mr. Smith, it was a pleasure to meet you." After you leave the scene, write down people’s names and the facial characteristics that set them apart from others. Set your goals slowly. If you have not tried to remember names in the past, you won’t be an expert right away. Make a goal of remembering 5 people’s names each time you get into a group setting. When this becomes easy, push your goal up to 6 or 7. You will find that once you get the 5 goal down that increasing the
limit is extremely easy. The second system in "remembering people’s names," is the Mnemonic System we have learned about in the earlier sections off this handout. By using simple association and imagination, we can mentally flag information that we choose to make interesting enough to remember. A combination of this and the Etiquette System works best for long term retention of memory. Make sure you are clear about the correct way of spelling and pronouncing that person’s name. Make sure you mentally repeat the person’s name at least twice in your mind. Look for that one obvious head or facial characteristic. Mentally reconstruct that person’s face. Use your wildest creativity to exaggerate the head or facial characteristic much like a cartoonist would. Repeat that person’s name while imagining the intensified feature you made up. It sometimes helps to rhyme or spoof the person’s name. You might remember John Pane by thinking "John Wayne" Pane.
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Improving Your Memory Concentrate — > Comprehend — > Remember You must get something before you can forget it. Often, when we say "I forgot," what we really mean is "I didn't pa y attention and understand it." Good students do not necessarily study more tha n poor students; they use their time more effectively. Top studen ts use the strategies of effective learning: concentrating, comprehending, and remembering. CONCENTRATE By concentration we mean sustained attention, focused in one direction, with no distractions. When you complain that you "can't concentrate," you usually mean you can't keep your attention on your studies. You're probably concentrating, but on other things such as what to eat, how to pay the rent, where to go tonight, and such. To overcome distractions that inter-fere with study, identify the distraction and apply a technique to alleviate or overcome it. Cope with internal distractionsInternal distractions include daydreams and thoughts like "I have to remember to call the plumber," and "this is boring." Many people find themselves "reading" a paragraph and discovering they are really thinking about how hungry they are or the question they need to ask their professor next week. Some ways of coping with these internal distractions include: Keep a notepad on your study table and jot down a brief reminder of the idea or problem. Then let it go from your mind. Turn the distraction, especially hunger or sleep, into a reward - once you master this idea, reward yourself with a snack or nap. To counteract boredom or lack of interest, try to identify the cause: lack of background knowledge, lack of purpose for the assignment, difficult reading material, or personal problems. If it is a textbook problem, try using the SQ3R approach. If the problem is personal, consider talking with a counselor. If these don't work to release your mind to concentrate, take a break and take care of the distraction. Eliminate external distractions External distractions are related to the physical environment of your study area. These are often easier to deal with once you've identified them. The best way to combat most external distractions, whether it's the television, the telephone, family members demanding attention, or the smell of dinner cooking, is to get away from them. Form the habit of studying in the same place at the same time every day. Make this place, whether at home or school, just for study. Pay your bills and read your magazines somewhere else - don't mix personal work, school work, and leisure activities. Select a study area with good lighting, adequate ventilation, and quiet surroundings.
When it is time to study, apply yourself totally with your full attention. If you feel you are not getting as much as you should from your study and you cannot alleviate the distraction, take a short break and try again. The bottom line: you must learn to concentrate. COMPREHEND Comprehending means your ability to translate information into meaningful ideas you understand. How well you learn some-thing, not how fast you learn it, is a critical factor in comprehensionFive basic principles of good comprehension include: Something that doesn't make sense to you is hard to learn. The more meaningful you make it, the easier it is to learn. The more you know about a subject, the easier it is to understand new information about it. The more interested you are in a subject, the easier it is to comprehend. Your ability to distinguish main points from details and tell the difference between significant details and unimportant details is the most important skill. Learning - understanding ideas - means you must fit each new piece of information into the subject's "big picture," not just memorize bits of details. REMEMBER Improving your memory, like improving any other skill, is hard work. These tips and techniques will not necessarily make remembering easier; the y just make it more efficient. Remembering is a skill"I have a poor memory" is just a convenient excuse to use when you haven't had the time to "learn" something. Being able to remember something usually depends on how thoroughly you learned it in the first place. Fortunately, you can improve your memory - it just takes time and work You remember only what you intend to remember. Do you forget your best friend's name or phone number? Do you forget how to drive? Realize you can't and don't need to remember everything. Trying to remember every detail you read and hear is probably impossible. Therefore, your ability to identify important ideas and details in the stud y/learning process is critical to effective recall of information - remembering what you want or need to remember. How you put information into your memory affects how e asily you can access it In many ways your memory is like an office filing system. Your sensory memory (momentary and very limited) is like a pink "while you were out" message that you deal with and forget. Your short-term memory (30-45 seconds with limited capacity) is like the "in-basket" where you sort out important from unimportant information. Your long-term memory (relatively permanent and unlimited in capac ity)
is like large file cabinets for storing important information. Everything in long-term storage must first be identified through sensory and/or short-term memory as important, then organized by some system and filed in the cabinet so it can be found easily. The same principles apply to your memory. You must identify meaningful and important information, organize it, and then study it (file it) so you can retrieve it from your memory. Experiment with many memory techniques to see which ones work best for youOnce you have identified important information, there are several techniques that can help you organize and recall it. There is not, however, one best method for remembering everything. Associate. Relate new information to something you alread y know. An isolated idea or fact is hard to remember; if you associate it with information that already makes sense to you, it will be more meaningful and thus easier to organize and remember. Visualize. Organize information into a vivid, clear mental picture. Fo r example, to remember the necessary elements of a novel, form a picture with all the important characters dressed in the style of the period, doing something representative of the character. Mnemonic Aids. For information that defies association or visualization, adapt a memory technique. Some mnemonic devices include: Acronyms - form a word from the first letter of each word in a series. For example, "HOMES" for recalling the Great Lakes: Huron, Onterio, Michigan, Erie, Superior. Acrostics - make a nonsense phrase so that the first letter of each word is the information. For example, "Every Good Boy Does Fine" for the E, G, B, D, F lines of the treble music staff. Word-Part Clues - remember whether the denotative or co nnotative meaning of a word is the dictionary meaning by denotative and dictionary both beginning with "d." Poems & Rhymes - make up short, catchy sayings that include the essential information. For example, "In 1492, C olumbus sailed the ocean blue. Review and use informationRegular review and use of information will significantly improve retention and recall. So, rather than a single marathon session, plan frequent short study sessions. Always include a review of previously learned information (yes, even if you've already had that test) as well as learning new information. © 1991 JL McGrath Paradise Valley Community College LSC Improving Memory Page ©2000 MCCCD. Last Modified: Questions and Comments to Diana Mitchell:
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There are many things you can do to improve your memory, among them the use of certain mental techniques, as well as special care with nutrition and medicines. To stimulate memory. Use your memory to the utmost. Challenge a novelty. Learn new skills. If you work in an office, learn to dance. If you are a dancer, learn to deal with a computer; if you work with sales, learn to play chess; if you are a programmer, learn to paint. This could stimulate your brain's neural circuits to grow. Pay attention. Don't try to memorize all the facts that happen, but focus your attention and concentrate in what you consider more important, avoiding all other thoughts. Exercise: take any object, as a pen, and concentrate on it. Think on its various characteristics: its material, its function, its color, its anatomy, etc. Don't allow any other thought to occupy your mind while you are concentrating on that pen. Relax. It is impossible to pay attention if you are tense or nervous. Exercise: hold your breath for ten seconds, then release it slowly. Associate facts to images. Learn mnemonic techniques. They are a very efficient way to memorize large quantities of information. Visualize images. See figures with the "eyes of your mind". Exercise: Close your eyes and imagine a big and juicy steak. Smell its aroma and feel the softness of its meat. Imagine yourself cutting it with a knife and fork, then tasting it. If your mouth filled with saliva while you visualized this scene, then you have done a good work! Do these exercises with other objects, like a bowl of soup, an
ice-cream cup, a chocolate pie, anywhere, as a dental office, an examination room, etc. Foods. Some vitamins are essential for the proper working of memory: tiamin, folic acid, and B12 vitamin. They are found in bread and cereal, vegetable and fruits. Some experts say that synthesized vitamins improve memory, but others have doubts about this, arguing that the studies have not confirmed these nutrients do work. Water. Water help maintain the memory systems working, specially in older persons. According to Dr. Trukington, lack of water in the body has an immediate and deep effect on memory; dehydration can generate confusion and other thought difficulties. Sleep. To be able to have a good memory, it is essential that we allow the brain to have enough sleep and rest. While sleeping, the brain disconnects from the senses, and proceeds to revising and storing memory. Insomnia would produce a chronic fatigue and would impair the ability of concentration and the storing of information. Medication. Some medicines can cause loss of memory: tranquilizers, muscular relaxants, sleep pills, and anti-anxiety drugs, particularly the benzoadiazepinics that include the diazepan (valium) and the lorazepan. Some medicines for the control of high blood pressure (hypertension) may cause memory problems and depression. Alcohol. The alcoholism is one of the most serious candidates to affect memory. Alcohol interferes specially with short-term memory, which impairs the ability of retaining new informations. Studies have shown that even the ingestion of low
quantities of alcoholic beverage during one whole week will interfere with the ability of remembering. Smoking. It is already well known that smoking lower the amount of oxygen arriving in the brain, and this fact many times affect memory. Studies have shown that, when compared with non-smokers, individuals smokers of one or more packs of cigarettes a day had difficulties of remembering people's faces and names in a test of visual and verbal memory (Turkington, 1996). Caffeine. Coffee and tea have a very positive effect to maintain attention and to end sleepiness, but the excitation promoted by these drinks may interfere with the memory function. Other tips (such as take notes, get organized, use a diary, keep fit, regular health checks, memory aids, etc). Contd. Human Memory: What it is and How to Improve It By: Silvia Helena Cardoso, PhD In: Brain & MInd Center for Biomedical Informatics State University of Campinas, Brazil Silvia Helena Cardoso, PhD Copyright 1997 State University of Campinas
