Improving You Memory

1. Improving You Memory By: Adam Bass

2. Introduction • Has anyone ever had trouble remembering someone’s name or forgot where you put something? • I will be sharing with you: • How memory works • Some techniques for improving you memory

3. How Memory Works

4. Understanding the Components of memory • 3 components of memory: • 1. Sensory memory • 2. Working memory • 3. Long-term memory Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp6-10

5. Encoding - Getting information into long-term memory. Focusing your attention on what you want to remember How We Remember: Encoding Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp11-18

6. How We Remember: Retrieval 2 ways to retrieve information from long-term memory: • 1)Recognition • 2)Recalling • Cues can be triggered when recalling info. It is basically an event, thought, picture, word, sound, etc. that triggers the retrieval of info. from long-term memory. Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp11-18

7. Why We Forget • An important part of the memory process is making decisions about what information is good to you and worth the effort to decipher it • 1. Some information never gets to your memory bank • 2. Memories that enter the memory bank may be overtaken with future similar info. that makes the original memory un-retainable • 3. Info. that you are completely new on will be harder to remember • 4. Some info. can be remembered once you find the proper cue • 5. The way we are influences what and how we remember • 6. Some pieces of remembered info. may gather together incorrectly • 7. Some memories just go away… Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp19-21

8. Strategies to Improve your Memory

9. Improving Your Ability to Encode • 4 kinds of strategies • Association • Visualization • Active Observation • Elaboration Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp84-95

10. Remembering More Than 1 Item • The Story Method • Chunking • First Letter Cues • Ex: Never Eat Soggy Waffles/ North East South West • Create a Word Categorization Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp105-111

11. Improving Your Ability to Recall • Three techniques: • Cue Yourself • Alphabet Search • Review in Advance Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp112-116

12. General Tips for Remembering • 1. Trust in yourself • 2. Make notice of what you want to remember • 3. Focus your attention on the matter • 4. Take out distractions • 5. Give yourself time • 6. Use all of your senses • 7. Organize yourself • 8.Recognize and deal with the problems that may be negatively influencing you memory • 9. Relax • 10. Laugh • 11. Enjoy your earlier memories Source: “Improving Your Memory” (2005) by Janet Fogler and Lynn Stern pp117-119

13. Conclusion • Now you all understand how our memory works and strategies used to help you remember better! • I hope you all enjoyed my presentation on “improving your memory” and now will use the strategies I mentioned in your everyday life.

14. Bibliography • Stern, Lynn and Fogler, Janet. (2005). Improving Your Memory: How to Remember What You’re Starting to Forget. (3rd ed.). Baltimore and London. (APA) • Images • http://www.hhpub.com/books/img/0-88937-235-7_b.jpg • http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/de/BD19983_.gif • http://www.gobinder.com/templates/gobindergreen/images/memorytutorial.jpg • http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/bimgdata/FC0764554352.JPG • http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol8/no1/hmmint.jpg • http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_07/d_07_cr/d_07_cr_tra/d_07_cr_tra_1a.gif • http://www.schwartzbooks.com/mas_assets/full/0801881161.jpg • http://www.alleydog.com/images/atkinsin.gif