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Memory

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 2 Four Categories of Memory Techniques Organize it Use your body Use your brain Recall it

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 3 Organize It Be selective Make it meaningful Create associations

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 4 Use Your Body Learn actively Relax Create pictures Recite and repeat Write it down

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 5 Engage your emotions Over-learn Escape the short-term memory trap Use your times of peak energy Use Your Brain

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 6 Distribute learning Be aware of attitudes Elaborate Intend to remember Use Your Brain

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 7 Recall It Remember something else Notice when you do remember Use it before you lose it Adopt the attitude that you never forget

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 8 Use Q-Cards Questions on Q-cards draw on both lower- and higher-order thinking –Encode material in different ways –Activate more areas of your brain Add pictures to the cards Read and recite aloud Carry with you all the time Create a card for each new concept within 24-hours

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 9 Set a Trap for Your Memory Link what you want to remember to something else An object A ritual Make the association unusual

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 10 Keep Your Brain Fit For Life Challenge your brain Exercise Eat well Nourish your social life Take care of your heart Drink alcohol moderately, if at all

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 11 Remembering Names Recite and repeat in conversation Ask other person to recite and repeat Visualize Admit you don’t know Introduce yourself again

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 12 Remembering Names Use associations Limit number of new names you learn at one time Ask for photos Go early Make it a game Use technology Intend to remember

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 13 Mnemonic Devices New words (acronyms) –NASA –National Aeronautics and Space Administration –Roy G. Biv –Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (colors of visible spectrum)

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 14 Mnemonic Devices Creative sentences (acrostics) –Every good boy does fine –Musical notes on treble clef staff (E, G, B, D, and F)

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 15 Mnemonic Devices Rhymes and songs It’s the real thing Thirty days hath September… In fourteen hundred and ninety-two…

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 16 Mnemonic Devices Systems –Loci system: create visual associations with familiar locations –Peg system: associate key words with numbers

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 17 Potential Limitations of Mnemonic Devices They don’t always help you understand material They can be complicated to learn or develop They can be forgotten