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Improving Your Memory For Better Study Skills!

Improving Your Memory For Better Study Skills!. By Ashlee Nicastro Period: 3. Rhyming Time!. Technique used by ancient story tellers. Helps trigger words within memory. If you can remember the first rhyme, the second will come easily. Ways To Rhyme!.

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Improving Your Memory For Better Study Skills!

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  1. Improving Your Memory For Better Study Skills! By Ashlee Nicastro Period: 3

  2. Rhyming Time! • Technique used by ancient story tellers. • Helps trigger words within memory. • If you can remember the first rhyme, the second will come easily.

  3. Ways To Rhyme! • Play or create memory games with a study buddy. • Come up with funny rhymes or mnemonic devices. • Example: “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”

  4. Alliteration • Can be used as a mnemonic device. • Take key words you are trying to memorize and find some words that begin with the same letter.

  5. Also in Alliteration • Examples: Same first letter • “King Kong” • “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” Same sound • “Plethora” means “Excess or abundance.” • Another word of excess or abundance is “plenty.” • “Plenty” can be matched with “Plethora.”

  6. Mental Associations • Also another mnemonic device. • Relationship between linking the term and information you want to remember. • Get creative as you can get! Make up detailed stories that’ll help you link the connection. • Make it as goofy or weird as you want- as long as it’ll help you remember what you need to know.

  7. Eddy My Son, Created the Sun. • One way to remember how Edison created the light bulb is by using sun as a possible link. When you think of a light bulb, it produces light, which is also what the sun does. • Thus, you can create the rhyme “Eddy my son created the sun.”

  8. Acronyms • Taking the first of every word and combining it together. • Example: SCUBA- Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. • Most famous (or well known) is Roy G. Biv, a made up name to remember the spectrum colors in order.

  9. Acronyms Continued • If the shortened names do not work for you, there's also the option of creating a full on sentence. • The first letter of each word in the sentence corresponds to the item you need to remember. • Example: Mary’s violet eyes make John stay up nights. • Mary=Mercury, Violet=Venus, eyes=Earth…

  10. Repeated EXPOSURE • The more you study and look over the material you need to know, the more it becomes implanted in your long-term memory. • Better to study an hour for five days rather than five hours in a day. • Your brain will remember the material you studied long after needed.

  11. Sleep on it • Studied facts show that studying right before you go to sleep can improve your recall memory of that information. • While you’re asleep, the mind processes the newly read information, stashing it into your long-term memory.

  12. Last minute cram cards • This is used mostly for information that won’t work with the other methods. • The night before a test, take a index card and write down any terms, facts, phrases, or formulas you can’t remember along with brief definitions or explanations. • Study this cram card before test or exam.

  13. ? Questions ? • If you have any questions about anything on this PowerPoint, please feel free to ask. I’ll do the best of my ability to answer them.

  14. Whoo! You’re done You’ve just learned seven different ways to study better and improve on your exams! (:

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