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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 Learn from the general to the specific Make it meaningful Create associations

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

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 5 Reduce interference 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 Give your “secret brain” a chance Combine memory techniques 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 Remember, you never forget!

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 8 Increase your attention Reduce interference Think out loud Use your whole body Use a cheat sheet Deal with distraction Know when to get help

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 9 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 - 10 Set a Trap for Your Memory Link what you want to remember to something else An object A ritual

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 11 Memory Traps: Link to Something Else An imaginary image or visual cue Telephone hanging on door

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 12 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 - 13 Remembering Names Use associations Limit number of new names you learn at one time Ask for photos or lists Make it a game

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 14 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 - 15 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 18 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