Memory
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory Memory Techniques 1.Be selective 2.Make it meaningful 3.Create associations
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory Memory Techniques 4.Learn actively 5.Relax 6.Create pictures 7.Recite and repeat 8.Write it down
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory Engage your emotions 10.Over-learn 11.Escape the short-term memory trap 12.Use your times of peak energy 20 Memory Techniques
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory Distribute learning 14.Be aware of attitudes 15.Elaborate 16.Intend to remember 20 Memory Techniques
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory Memory Techniques 17.Remember something else 18.Notice when you do remember 19.Use it before you lose it 20.Adopt the attitude that you never forget!
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 7 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 - 8 Remembering Names Use associations Use technology –Enter contact info in or database software
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Memory - 9 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 12 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