1. Improving Memory
Unit 8
Lesson 3

2. Objectives Remember why we forget. Identify ways to improve memory.
Explain various memory disorders.

3. Warm Up What are the three ways to retrieve info from LTM?
Recall, Recognition, Relearning

4. Review Why can’t we do this sometimes?
Wasn’t stored, retrieval failure, decay, repression, interference, amnesia

5. Quick Activity
You’re going to Target today afterschool. Write down 10 things you need to pick up.

6. How can we improve memory?
Mnemonic devices
Easy to remember forms
Easy retrieval cues
Rhymes
Acronym
Acrostic

7. Ways to Improve Memory Visual Imagery Method of Loci Mental Pictures
Form vivid interaction between specific locations and items to be remembered.
Mental Pictures
Images
Link Method
Ancient Greeks used to remember long speeches. Familiar with home. Start in front door and that is for point 1, move to dining room which is point 2, etc. Then when away from house can mentally work your way through the house that you’re so familiar with and in the process remember the info you need to remember!
Link Method – three things on list (bread, juice, carrots) may visualize himself eating a carrot sandwhich with oj.

8. Ways to Improve Memory Pegword Method One is a bun Two is a shoe
Learn series of words (pegs) on which memories can be “hung”.
One is a bun
Two is a shoe
Three is a tree
Four is a door
Five is a hive
Six is sticks
Seven is heaven
Eight is a gate
Nine is vine
Ten is a hen
Lets say you need to remember a grocery list. Bread is first thing…maybe visualize loaf of bread on bag of girls head. Milk, see someone drinking milk out of a shoe. Bananas are next, see bananas in tree, etc.
Pegwords are retrieval cues for groceries.

9. Ways to Improve Memory PQ4R: Used for text material SCAN Preview info
Question
Read
Reflect
Recite
Review
SCAN
Survey Headings
Capture Images
Attack Boldface Words
Note Any Questions/Directions

10. Ways to Improve Memory Other: Elaborate encoding Personal meaning
Narrative methods
Overlearning
Space out learning or practice

11. Exceptional Memory Mnemonists: People with exceptional memory
Synesthesia: One type of sensory info evokes second sense (Colors “feel” warm/cool)
S.V. Shereshevskii
Rajan Mahadevan

12. Exceptional Memory Savants:
Score low on IQ but have exceptional memory capacity/ability
Kim Peek

13. Closure
Recall one memory trick or mnemonic that you can use to help you study for you memory quiz in two days.