1. Improving Your Memory

2. Basic Memory Drill and Practice Boring, But Necessary
Maintenance Rehearsal
Flash Cards

4. Drill and Practice Iconic Memory (Visual)
Held For a Fraction of a Second
Echoic Memory (Sounds)
Held For Several Seconds

5. What Do These Have In Common?
FANBOYS
HOMES
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Every Good Boy Does Fine
They’re all mnemonic devices—
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet—Conjunctions
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, Superior—Great Lakes
Order of Operations
E, G, B, D, F—Line Notes

6. Mnemonic Devices Systems For Remembering Information ROY G BIV
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

7. 1. Relate To What You Already Know
Elaborative Rehearsal
Think More Deeply
More Likely To Remember

8. A Wolf Is Like A Dog But Wild and More Dangerous

9. I Before E Except After C
Retrieve
Weird
It’s weird that “weird” doesn’t follow the rule.

10. If I Know My 9’s Times Through 5…
9x2=18
9x3=27
9x4=36
9x5=45
9x6=54
9x7=63
9x8=72
9x9=81
6-9 are 2-5 reversed

11. 2. Unusual Associations
Funny or strange so that it stands out

12. Sn Is The Symbol For Tin
SNake in a TIN can

13. Grocery List
Remember a grocery list—visualize a house (or something different), place what you need at various parts of the house. If I see a taco at the door, I know to get ground beef, shells, and such. If I see a cookie in the window, I know to get cookie mix and oil, etc.

14. 3. Construct Links Tie The Idea To Something Else
“People Pay With Money, So Do I.”
Peso
Peso=Spanish for money

15. “A black sheep doesn’t obey, ha!” Oveja “The library is full o books.”
Oveja=Spanish for sheep
Libro=Spanish for book

16. TED TALKS link

17. NPR interview link