1. Memory What are memory skills? Why would memory skills be important?
How could you use memory skills in your life?
(student) (future career) (home life)
Read over the 80% handout

2. Review chapter objectives
Take 3 to 5 minutes to preview the Chapter as you should be doing for every class!

3. Tested your memory lately?
1. How often do you fail to recognize places you’ve been before? 2. How often do you forget whether you did something, such as lock the door or turn off the lights or the oven? 3.How often do you forget when something happened- wondering whether it was yesterday or today? 4. How often do you forget where you put your keys 5. How often do you forget something you were told recently and had to be reminded of it? 6. How often are you unable to remember a name or word , even though it’s on the tip of your tongue? 7. In conversation, how often do you forget what you were just talking about?
Points
1 pt. Not within the last 6 months
2pts. Once or twice in the last six months
3 pts. About once a month
4 pts. About once a week
5 pts. Daily
6 pts. More than once a day

4. Add up your points for the results
7-14 =better than average memory
15-25 =average
26 or higher=below average

5. Great News about Memory
We can improve our capacity to use it!
Today you’ll learn techniques that will help you increase your memory capacity.
Hopefully by the end, you’ll have a technique you can try when studying for your other classes.

6. What is Memory

7. Memory
People used to think memory was a closet, but closets get crowded.
Now we believe memory is a process.
Conscious level- memories appear as distinct and unconnected mental events: words, sensations, images.
Biological level- each of these memories involves millions of nerve cells, or neurons, firing chemical messages to one another. If you’d observe these changes in real time, you’d see regions of cells all over the brain glowing with electrical charges at speeds that would put a computer to shame.
When a series of cells connects several times in a similar pattern, the result is a memory. .

8. Memory continued
Memory is not stored. It is a process in which you encode information as links between active neurons that fire together.
Memory is the probability that certain patterns of brain activity will occur again in the future. You re-create a memory each time you recall it.
Whenever you learn something new, your brain changes physically by growing more connections between neurons. The more you learn, the greater number of connections.
There’s no limit to how many memories your brain can encode.
For ex: recalling times when you get together with friends that you normally you would not think of, memory was activated!

9. The Memory Jungle Analogy Time!
This can be confusing, so hang with me!
Picture a Jungle in your mind.
There is only one entrance to the jungle, a small meadow or path.
The animals in the Jungle represent different memories or info in your brain.
2 rules- 1. each thought or memory (animal) must pass through the meadow at the entrance of the jungle 2. Once the animal enters the jungle, it never leaves.
Only way in the jungle, is the meadow. Every animal is a memory, ex: when you dream of people you don’t recognize, you have seen that face before.

10. Meadow The meadow before the jungle represents short- term memory.
(ex.Telephone numbers)
It has a limited capacity and disappears fast
You tell me a phone number I can only remember it long enough to jot it down. I wouldn’t remember it tomorrow.

11. Jungle Represents long-term memory
You can recall information from day to day, week to week, and year to year.
Animals (memories) never leave long-term memory
Memories or information, is stored in the Jungle (long term memory). Ex. Like the stories you remember with friends is stored but you have to connect it to retrieve it.

12. Visualization # 1: A well-worn path
How to remember?
Picture this elephant as memory or information you want to remember.
To get into the Jungle (long term memory) the elephant has to go through the path (short term memory).
The more the Elephant goes through the path, the better the path becomes right?
Better paths make it easier to get to the jungle. Which means…..
Reviewing info more often, makes it easier to retrieve.
What does this mean?? The more you ignite a memory (ex study) the more likely you are to remember. If that elephant just walked the path once, the path would grow back. Same thing as if you only read something once, it’s not going to “stick”.

13. Visualization continued…
Brain research suggests that thoughts can wear paths into the brain- (neutral traces)
The more well-worn a neutral trace, the easier it is to retrieve the thought (the more clear the path, the easier it is to get into the jungle)
The more often you recall information (reviewing notes), the more often you put the same information in your memory.
This makes it easier to retrieve (or remember) when you need it.
Think about a car-when you first buy it you have think about how to reverse, unlock the doors etc
However, after weeks and years, the path in your memory is so worn, you don’t even have to think about it. “Second nature”
Has anyone been driving home, work school, or somewhere you go all the time, started talking on the phone or not paying attention and still end up at your destination? And you look back and think “how did I get here?” I didn’t have to remind myself where to turn or where to go, I just did it! This is a “well worn path”

14. Visualization #2 A herd of thoughts
Picture many animals gathered at a clearing-like thoughts gathering at a central location in memory.
It’s easier to retrieve thoughts that are grouped together, just as it is easier to find a herd of animals and not just one.
Pieces of information are easier to recall if you can associate them with similar information. For example- you can remember directions by landmarks, or TV shows by theme songs. Etc.
Your classes relate!! Use it! Med term may help you with anatomy or vice versa.
Phone Number time.
Ex: when you learn about anatomy you learn about “groups” similar in location. So when studying, use groups that work together. Learning a part of the arm then next sentence reading about the heart would be confusing right? Whats easier to find? A single animal? Or a large herd? A single friend at the club? Or a group of friends? Same thing with memories! FINAL ex:Do phone number example on the board. Write 8numbers then divide it like a phone number.

15. Visualization # 3 Turning your back
More Jungle Analogies…
Imagine releasing an elephant into the jungle, turning your back, and counting to 10.
When you turn around, the elephant is gone. This is exactly what happens to most of the information you receive.
Generally, we recall only 50 percent of the material we have just read. Within 24 hrs, most of us can recall only about 20 percent. This means that 80 percent of the material has not been encoded and is wandering around lost in memory jungle.
To fix this- review quickly. Do not take your eyes off the thought or (elephant).
As the elephant goes into the jungle don’t turn your back! Watch where it goes! (review it) .
Handout Time!
HAND OUT CURVE OF FORGETTING WS.

16. Story Method or Loci System

17. Loci System example Alligator Clown Kitten Hummer Shopping Mall Shoes
Hamburger
Hot air balloon
Television
Criminal
Pillow
Monkey

18. Loci System How many words do you remember in order?

19. Once upon a time, 1 alligator came across 2 clowns with 3 kittens
Once upon a time, 1 alligator came across 2 clowns with 3 kittens. The alligator was initially surprised when they gave him one of the kittens, but was shocked when he watched 4 of them get into a hummer and drive off! At 5 p.m. that afternoon, the alligator went to the local shopping mall because he wanted to buy 6 new shoes. After all that shopping, he was very hungry so he ate 7 hamburgers. On his way home, he saw 8 hot air balloons on the horizon. He returned home, and at 9p.m. that evening he turned his television to watch his favorite reality show about 10 criminals. In this particular episode, they were fighting over 11 pillows. Then 12 monkeys were released into their cell, chaos broke out!
Read the story once. They should focus harder on what I’m saying now focus on where you are, then read the story again. Read it again and they read it with me outloud. Move on to next slide, and read it with the whole class.

20. Last Time Read the story again!!
After this, read it for the last time, walking around and pointing at people to fill the blanks.

21. Try the Loci System with Anatomy Terms
Integumentary System
Skeletal System
Muscular System
Nervous System
Endocrine System
Cardiovascular System
Lymphatic System
Respiratory System
Digestive System
Urinary System
Reproductive System
I checked with your anatomy class and this is on you will be tested on this at some point, and even oral and facial anatomy will need to know this.
Get with a partner, and come up with a similar story to help you remember modeling the LOCI system. (10 to 15 min)