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Memory in everyday life

Memory in everyday life. Strategies for memory improvement. You can improve your memory using various techniques: Chunking Cramming Cues External aids Imagery Make it meaningful Make no mistakes Me! Me! Me! Place it! Rehearse it! Routine Test it! Wordplay. Chunking.

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Memory in everyday life

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  1. Memory in everyday life

  2. Strategies for memory improvement. • You can improve your memory using various techniques: • Chunking • Cramming • Cues • External aids • Imagery • Make it meaningful • Make no mistakes • Me! Me! Me! • Place it! • Rehearse it! • Routine • Test it! • Wordplay

  3. Chunking • Even with food you don’t usually swallow large pieces whole. You cut it up into manageable pieces, so why not do the same for information you are trying to remember. • 020846793021(Whole) • 0208 467 930 21(manageable chunks)

  4. Method of Loci/Roman room(Place it!) • Use a mental image of a place you know well - such as your home - and take a mental walk through the rooms in a set order. Then, put the names from your list one by one into the rooms. E.g. Your boy/girlfriends siblings in order of age…Visualise • Harry the eldest in your front room • Sally the second in the back room. • Molly the third is in the kitchen ... and so on. To recall the names later you repeat the mental walk.

  5. Cues • Give yourself a cue to help your intention to do something. • Doctors use it to help people's health behaviour. • E.g. say to yourself 'whenever I have my first cup of tea in the morning, I will also take my pills'. Or ‘ • When neighbours finishes I'll do my exercises'.

  6. Mnemonics • If you impose structure you can recall information more easily. One way is using the Peg-word system: • One-Bun. • Two-Shoe. • Three-tree. • Four-door. Another famous mnemonic is: • Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. (Colours of the rainbow).

  7. Do these techniques really work. The effectiveness of the methods depend on organisation: • They provide links to existing memories. • They link information together. Therefore retrieval of one item is likely to lead to the retrieval of another. • Thus these methods are effective if used correctly.

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