A brief presentation on memory strategies for LFCC SDV 100 students.

1. Memory
How Can I Improve?

2. Knowing Something About
Your Memory Might Help
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3. How Do I Commit Things To
Memory?
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4. How Can I Avoid Forgetting The Things I
Have Committed To Memory
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5. What Happens When The Cues We Use to Re
?
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6. Forming Your Memories
• Thinking about “what it means” doesn’t always
work
• Have a specific task to force you to think about
meaning
• Ask yourself questions, write summaries, or outline
parts of text
• Re-reading notes and text only gives false sense
that you know the information
• When you need help finding meaning use
mnemonics
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7. Retrieving Memories
• Have distinctive cues for what you
want to remember
• Distribute studying over time
• Over learn
• Test yourself the way you will be tested
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8. Exercise Your Brain
• Use your opposite hand
• Learn phone numbers
• Prepare one new story every day
• Go a different way
• Solve a problem
• Read a book
• Make lists
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