1. Memory

2. Use this Master Student Map to ask yourself,
WHY?
You can boost your study, test taking, reading and note taking skills.
WHAT?
Power Process: Love your problems
Take your memory out of the closet
The memory jungle
20 memory techniques
Set a trap for your memory
Your brain – its care and feeding
Mnemonic devices
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HOW?
to focus your attention
to make conscious choices about what to remember
to recall facts and ideas with more ease
WHAT IF?
...you could use your memory to its full potential?

3. Love Your Problems
3 approaches for responding to problems:
Deny
Resist
Love*
*as in “unconditionally accept”
By loving your problems, you can discover effective ways to deal with them.

4. Take your memory out of the closet
Memory is not a place or a thing, rather it is a process.

5. The Memory Jungle 4 Visualizations well-worn path herd of thoughts
turn your back
direct the traffic
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6. 20 Memory Techniques Be selective. Make it meaningful.
Organize Use Body Use Brain Recall it
Be selective.
Make it meaningful.
Create associations.

7. 20 Memory Techniques Learn actively. Relax. Create pictures.
Organize Use Body Use Brain Recall it
Learn actively.
Relax.
Create pictures.
Recite and Repeat.
Write it down.

8. 20 Memory Techniques Organize Use Body Use Brain Recall it
Engage your emotions.
Overlearn.
Escape the short-term memory trap.
Use your times of peak energy.
Distribute learning.
Be aware of attitudes.
Elaborate.
Intend to remember.

9. 20 Memory Techniques Remember something else.
Organize Use Body Use Brain Recall it
Remember something else.
Notice when you do remember.
Use it before you lose it.
Adopt the attitude that you never forget.

10. Set a trap for your memory
Link an activity to another event to create a “trap” for your memory.

11. Your brain – its care and feeding
Meaningful patterns
Rich sensory experience
Long-term care

12. Mnemonic Devices Make up new words Use creative sentences
Create rhymes and songs
Use the loci system
Use the peg system

13. Mnemonic Devices Three limitations: They don’t help you understand.
They may be too complicated to learn.
They may be forgotten.

14. FIVE Cs Character Creative Thinking Critical Thinking Communication
FOR YOUR CAREER
CHARACTER CRITICAL THINKING CREATIVE THINKING COLLABORATION COMMUNICATION
Character
Creative Thinking
Critical Thinking
Communication
Collaboration