Study skills memory techniques

3. The power and process of
reproducing and recalling what
has been learned and retained

4.  Semantic: Words and Symbols
 Implicit: How to
 Remote: Data collected over time
 Working: Extremely short-term, lasting
momentarily
 Episodic: Recent experience

5. Visual Learners
 Write things down because you remember them
better
 Copy over your notes. Rewriting helps
 Use color
 Write vocabulary words on index cards. Use
colors

6. Auditory Learners
 Try studying with somebody so you can talk
and hear the information
 Recite out loud what you want to remember
 Write vocabulary words on index cards and
review them frequently by reading them
aloud

7. Haptic Learner
 To memorize, pace or walk around while
reciting or looking at a list
 Close your eyes and write the information in
the air or on a desk.

8.  Your brain never loses
anything
 Forgetting: it is either the
inability to recall stored
information or the failure
to store information in the
first place
 The things that interest
you

9.  10% of what we read
 20% of what we hear
 30% of what we see
 50% of what we see and hear
 70% of what we say
 90% of what we say and do

10.  Attention and Selection
 Encoding
 Storage
 Retrieval

11. The first process of memory is
attention. There is much more
information in your environment than
you can process at any given time. You
must make choices (conscious and
unconscious) regarding what you will
attend to and store in your memory

12.  How are memories formed?
 It refers to translating incoming
information into a mental representation
that can be stored in memory
 You can encode the information on a
number of different ways
 According to sound (acoustic code)
 What it looks like (visual code)
 What it means (semantic code)

13.  It is the process of holding information in
your memory
 Short-Term vs. Long-Term Memory
 Transfer from Short to Long-term
 Repeating the information
 Practicing
 Thinking about it deeply (elaborate) – drawing
connections between what you are trying to
remember and the other things that you are
familiar to you

14. It is the process of
actually remembering
something when you
want to

15. 1. Learn from the general to the specific
2. Make it meaningful
3. Create associations
4. Learn it once, actively
5. Relax
6. Recite and repeat

16. 7. Create pictures
- draw diagrams, mind maps
- create action
- make pictures vivid
- turn abstract ideas into concrete
actions or images

17. 8. Write it down (outline, 3x5 cards, summary)
9. Reduce interference
10. Over learn
11. Escape the short-term memory trap
12. Use daylight
13. Distribute Learning
14. Be aware of attitudes

18. 15. Choose what not to store in memory
16. Combine memory techniques
17. Remember something else
18. Notice when you do remember
19. Use it before you lose it
20. Remember, you never forget.
21. Grouping by category, alphabet,
chronological order

19. 22. Create abbreviations
23. Visualize
24. Review
 24 hrs after learning takes
place
 10 minute review reinforces one
hour class
 periodically to move material
from short- to long-term
memory

20.  Are methods for remembering
information that is otherwise
quite difficult to recall
 A word or a sentence which is
intended to be easier to
remember than the thing it
stands for.

21.  Acronyms – words created from the
initial letters of a series of words
 NASA : National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
 Acrostics – sentences that help you
remember a series of letters that
stand for something
 “Every Good Boy Does Fine (E,G,B,D and
F)

22.  Rhymes and Songs – Make a rhyme or a
song of the facts
 Alphabet (Twinkle, Twinkle little
Star)
 Loci Systems – creates visual associations
with familiar locations. It can also help
you remember things in a particular order
 Peg Systems – employs key words
represented by numbers
 Example 1=bun, 2=shoe, 3=tree,
4=door

23.  Recite and repeat in conversation
 Ask the other person to recite
and repeat
 Visualize
 Admit you don’t know
 Introduce yourself again
 Use associations

24.  Limit the number of new
names you learn at one
time
 Ask for photos
 Go early
 Make it a game