Memory Techniques

1. Memory Techniques Gary Millns BPP Professional Education Jersey Tel: 01534 711811 Email: garymillns@bpp.com

2. Ingredients for good study habits

3. Course Content • Introduction • How the Memory Works • What the Memory likes • Memory Techniques • -Peg test • -Linkage • -Journey Method • -Story Method • -Roman Room Method • Speed Reading • Mind Mapping

4. Objective At the end of this session you will be able to: Explain how the mind works Explain what the brain likes Demonstrate at least 3 different memory techniques

5. How’s your memory? 9. Brush 3. Stethoscope 8. Honey 5. Alley 2. Tree 6. Tile 4. Sofa 10. Toothpaste 1. Atom 7. Windscreen You have 60 seconds to memorise these items

6. Effective Study In school, were you ever taught anything about: Your brain, and how understanding its functions could help you learn, memorise and think? How your eye functions when you are learning and about how you can use this knowledge to your advantage? Concentration and how to maintain it when necessary? How to make notes and how and when to review them?

7. The Memory Fallacy How good is your memory? Does it get worse as you get older? The memory is like a muscle: the more you use it the better it gets. The more it is neglected, the worse it gets. Adult learning – trained out of using imagination and less structured It’s only worse if you allow it to be!!

8. You have a fantastic memory! Dreams Surprise random recall Perfect memory Capacity of a brain cell Penfield’s experiments Stimulating a past experience Configuration of brain cells Near death experience Photographic memory 1000 photographs Results from memory techniques

9. Reasons why people resist change Ability Can’t do it! Uncertainty Will it work? Loss of Control I’ve always done it my way! Different tasks Yes, it may be different More work More investment; Less work

10. Your Amazing Brain How it works… Walk through the woods Immediate Memory Short term memory Long term memory Repetition and Retention

11. Your Amazing Brain A huge Telephone Exchange

12. Fundamental Principles Association Linking things together Eg Song from your holidays Imagination Using visualisations Eg Remembering a holiday Location Provide a context To differentiate between information

13. Your Amazing Brain Your brain enjoys… Senses See; Hear; Taste; Touch; Smell Association Linking to something familiar Patterns Order; Regularity Wholeness Complete picture; Understandable

14. Learning Styles Visual Written information, notes, diagrams, pictures. Visual appeal. Auditory Spoken word. Listen and take notes later. Auditory clues and music. Kinaesthetic Touch and movement. Imitation and practice. Performing actions. Using tools.

15. Let’s practice using your imagination!

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17. What your brain enjoys Sensuality Movement Association Sexuality Humour Imagination Number Symbolism (£ %) Colour Order and sequence Positivity Exaggeration SMASHIN’ SCOPE

18. Memory Techniques Acronyms Peg Test – Number / Shape system Linkage system Journey system Story Method Roman Room Method Major System

19. Acronyms “A word formed from the initial letters of other words” BBC NATO BPP SMASHIN’SCOPE

20. Exercise 1 – Peg test (Number/Rhyme) Atom Tree Stethoscope Sofa Alley Tile Windscreen Honey Brush Toothpaste You have 60 seconds to memorise these items Number/Rhyme or Number/Shape System

21. Exercise 2 – Linkage System Wallpaper Scissors Power Perfume Mountain Nail Elephant Safe Skirt Watch Jail Melon String Nurse Mirror Mongrel Ice Cream Plant Suitcase Engraving Read through the list only once and then see how many you can remember!

22. Exercise 3 - Journey System Journey from BPP, Jersey to the Bus Station. Front door KB Scruffy Murphy’s Atlantique Seafood Bar The Cows Hallmark cards Soleil Levant Dorothy Perkins Boots

23. Remember these! toilet roll oranges toffee petrol nuts bread newspaper wine flowers eggs

24. 6 Activities of a HR Department Recruitment Pay and Benefits Training & Development Staff Satisfaction Social Events Release Journey Method

25. Exercise 4a – Story method Close your eyes and visualise going through the actions as the story is read out to you.

26. Exercise 4b - Story method Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Make a story out of these words

27. Exercise 5 – Roman Room method Objects or people in a room that you know Eg: The Queen Dom / Res President Obama Non Dom / Non Res Madonna Non Dom / Res Me Dom / Non Res

28. The Major Memory System Advanced Peg Test The system works by linking words to a number system via the sounds that they make Learn the Peg and link associations to it

29. Remembering names Face Association Try to find an unusual feature to create an association with their name Eg Someone else you know, rhyme or image Repetition Repeat name or ask for name to be repeated Use often (without over doing it!!) Exchange Business cards Make a note Walk through woods

30. Other Ideas Blank templates – Football Club; Fashion House Amalgamate techniques – Journey method / time line + Visualisations Practice your visualisations Let your imagination run wild! Incorporate into speed reading and mind mapping

31. Ingredients for good study habits

32. Objective At the end of this session you will be able to: Explain how the mind works Explain what the brain likes Demonstrate at least 3 different memory techniques

33. Memory TechniquesThank you attendingGive it a go!! Gary Millns BPP Professional Education Jersey Tel: 01534 711811 Email: garymillns@bpp.com