MEMORY IMPROVEMENT

1. MEMORY IMPROVEMENT

2. Quote by Edison "The average person's brain does not observe a thousandth part of what the eye observes." --Edison

3. Memory • The concept of memory is difficult to define • Memory is one of those abilities that we take for • granted • Certainly memory is related to learning. • Memory: • Is the system or process by which the products • or results of learning are stored for future use.

4. What is Memory? Memory is the process by which your mind receives information and either discards it or stores it for later use.

5. Class Exercise • 1. If someone asked you what memory is (to define) memory, what would you say? • 2. Are there different types / kinds of memory? If so, brainstorm some. • 3. How important is the ability to remember? Why? Explain your thoughts? • 4. Without our memory we would not survive. Agree or disagree, and explain your choice. • 5. Without memories we would not know who we are. Agree or disagree, and explain your choice.

6. REMEMBER

7. How We Remember Sensory Input Sensory Data Short-Term Memory Sensory Screening Long-Term Memory Decay Decay

8. Simple Truths about Memory • Forgetting is normal. • You can improve your memory. • Memory aids that have helped others may work for you. • Memory Techniques that you create or adapt for yourself that correspond to your learning style are the best.

9. The Three R’s of Memory • Reception • Retention • Recall

10. Tips to improving your reception • Pay attention: Stay alert . Focus on what you are learning. • Engage as many senses as possible when receiving information. Take notes (tactile senses). Lookand (visual senses) Listen the environment (auditory senses). • Ask questions. You must understand the information to receive it.

11. Techniques to improve memory for study material or reports • Attention and focus are key to memory! Tune out everything else. • Elaboration (add visual, auditory and other information) helps cement idea • Repetition helps strengthen the pathways • When studying, take breaks so facts won’t interfere with one another • Engage your brain when you want to remember something…Think of the spelling, a picture of the word, perhaps even pronounce it.

12. 10 Techniques for Improving Memory: Influential Factors: 1.Number of study sessions: - Generally the greater the number of sessions the better the learning and memory 2. Distribution of Study Sessions: - Sessions should be spread out. Spaced practice is more effective than massed practice 3. Meaningfulness of Material: - If you attach meaning you will learn better and remember longer

13. 10 Techniques for Improving Memory: 4. Similarity of items: - a group of items of the same general type will be learned better than a group of dissimilar items 5. Serial Positioning: - Items at the beginning and end of a study session or list will be learned better than items in the middle of the study session or list 6. Mnemonic Devices: - When you are not able to attach authentic meaning to information, creating associations to help you remember the material will increase memory

14. 10 Techniques for Improving Memory: 7. Imagery: - Creating mental images or pictures in your mind enhances recognition and recall of information 8. Grouping or Chunking: - grouping similar items together into categories helps to remember them better 9. Coding: - Creating special codes to help learn material that lack relevance 10. Exercise regularly – Both mind and body

15. Tips to improving your Retention:(During Training) • Be an active reader. Make notes while you are reading. • Review, Review, Review. The more you review the information that you hope to learn, the longer it will stay in your memory. • Recite, Recite, Recite. The more you repeat the information, the longer you will be able to remember the material. Use note cards and study guides. • Practice, Practice, Practice. Do your practice; it helps you internalize the information. • Motivate yourself to remember. Ask yourself how will this information or lack of it impact future goals? etc.

16. Memory Techniques 1. Mnemonics Mnemonics are tricks, games, or rhymes that help you remember something. Create a rhyme to help you remember a concept with multiple parts. 2. Use acronyms An acronym is a word formed by the first letter of other word. Choose a key word that will help you remember each step. Then, using the letter of each key word, create your acronym 3. Associate to Remember Association is the process of connecting new information that you want to remember to something you already know. 4. The Peg System The Peg System uses numbers and letters to sequence information

17. Memory TechniquesMNEMONICS

18. Memory Techniques Look Observe Deep Observe

19. Association • Link System • Peg System

20. The Peg System • The PEG system will show you how to count with objects, instead of numbers. • DO NOT REVEAL THIS SECRET TO OTHERS!

21. STACKING AND PEGGING REMEMBERING OBJECTS, IMAGES AND SUBJECTS PEG NUMBERS: ONE : RUN TWO : ZOO THREE : TREE FOUR : DOOR FIVE : KNIFE SIX : SICK SEVEN : HEAVEN EIGHT : GATE NINE : WINE TEN : DEN

22. The Link System • Associate or Link the first item to the second item; then second item to the third item and so on. • See the associations as pictures in your mind. …The association must be.. • Illogical • Ridiculous • Out of Proportion

23. E.g.. Rat,Cheese,Trap

24. Simple Link System test • Refrigerator • Chair • Table • Microwave oven • Television • Cup and Saucer • Window • Vessels • Electric Stove • Cupboard

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