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Four Categories of Memory Techniques

• Organize it

• Use your body

• Use your brain

• Recall it


Organize It

• Learn from the general to the specific

• Make it meaningful

• Create associations


Use Your Body

• Learn it once, actively

• Relax

• Create pictures

• Recite and repeat

• Write it down


• Reduce interference

• Over-learn

• Escape the short-term memory trap

• Use your times of peak energy

Use Your Brain


• Distribute learning

• Be aware of attitudes

• Give your “secret brain” a chance

• Combine memory techniques

Use Your Brain


Recall It

• Remember something else

• Notice when you do remember

• Use it before you lose it

• Remember, you never forget!


Increase your attention

• Reduce interference

• Think out loud

• Use your whole body

• Use a cheat sheet

• Deal with distraction

• Know when to get help


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


Set a Trap for Your Memory

• Link what you want to remember to something else

• An object

• A ritual


Memory Traps:Link to Something Else

• An imaginary image or visual cue

• Telephone hanging on door


Remembering Names

• Recite and repeat in conversation

• Ask other person to recite and repeat

• Visualize

• Admit you don’t know

• Introduce yourself again


Remembering Names

• Use associations

• Limit number of new names you learn at one time

• Ask for photos or lists

• Make it a game


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)


Mnemonic Devices

• Creative sentences (acrostics)

– Every good boy does fine

– Musical notes on treble clef staff (E, G, B, D, and F)


Mnemonic Devices

• Rhymes and songs

It’s the real thing

Thirty days hath

September…

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two…


Mnemonic Devices

• Systems

– Loci system: create visual associations with familiar locations

– Peg system: associate key words with numbers


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

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