1. FACS 56 life management improving your thinking skills

2. memory basics each day most of us face a situation in which we have forgotten something important… examples?

3. memory basics think of everything we DO remember…the key to this success is how we use our brains to remember this information brain is pattern seeking— constantly trying to determine what is meaningful in what it experiences

4. memory basics each new experience is quickly evaluated to see if it fits into the existing network…like a puzzle

5. memory basics brain can store information on 3 levels: sensory memory first step—brain must sense/ experience if meaningful, gets sent to short-term short-term memory temporary storehouse must tie it to something you know—with repetition it moves to long-term long-term memory capacity seems limitless much of what we forget is actually stored here we have just “lost the key” to access it

6. learning modalities before we can store information we must be aware of it/perceive it—through sight, sound, touch, taste, smell What do we use most in classroom setting? one sense is generally dominant in an individual

7. learning modalities input comes in four modes: visual auditory kinesthetic mixed your dominant modality is most efficient way to receive information your challenge is to adapt the input to fit your strengths

8. multiple intelligences Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind, 1983

9. extraction & internalization when we begin to review information for meaning, we are in the extraction stage this needs to occur before info can be stored in the memory the brain uses the linguistic, logical & spatial capacities for extractions

10. extraction & internalization which are you?

11. extraction & internalization once extraction has occurred, we can internalize the information and store it in long-term memory

12. participation activity: sound log (due March 1 st ) (refer to pgs. 63-64 in text for specifics) keep a sound log of each sound you hear—begin the log when you wake up in the morning and end it when you arrive at work or school (about one hour) answer the questions in the text at the end of the given time period