MEMORY

IMPROVEMENT
TECHNIQUES
By
KARTHIK RAJAKUMARAN
ID: IN0704
Memory Improvement
Memory is the process by which your mind
receives information and either discards it
or stores it for later use.
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How We Remember How We Remember
Sensory Sensory
Input Input
Sensory Sensory
Data Data
Sensory Sensory
Screening Screening
Short Short- -Term Term
Memory Memory
Long Long- -Term Term
Memory Memory
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Sequence of Information Processing
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Simple Truths about Memory/Demystifying
Memory
Forgetting is normal.
You can improve your memory.
Memory aids that have helped others
may work for you.
Memory Techniques that you create or
adapt for yourself that correspond to your
learning style are the best.
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The Three Rs of Memory The Three Rs of Memory
Reception
Retention
Recall
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Reception Reception
Your mind takes in information through your five
senses. The first step to remembering information
is to receive or understand it. Relating
information to something familiar can increase
your understanding of the material. You cannot
retain information that you dont understand.
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Tips to improving your reception
Pay attention: Stay alert . Focus on what you
are learning.
Engage as many senses as possible when receiving
information. Take notes (tactile senses). Look
and (visual senses) Listen the environment
(auditory senses).
Ask questions. You must understand the
information to receive it.
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Retention
Retention is the ability of the
mind to take in and store
information.
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Tips to improving your Retention:
(During Training)
Be an active reader. Make notes while you are
reading.
Review, Review, Review. The more you review the
information that you hope to learn, the longer it will
stay in your memory.
Recite, Recite, Recite. The more you repeat the
information, the longer you will be able to remember
the material. Use note cards and study guides.
Practice, Practice, Practice. Do your practice; it
helps you internalize the information.
Motivate yourself to remember.
Ask yourself how will this information or lack of it
impact future goals? etc.
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Recall
Recall is the ability to select from that
vast store of information we need at a
given time.
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Tips for improving recall
Organize information. Put similar items together in
categories that make sense to you.
Use your preferred learning style
Visual learners -- make charts, maps and/or
diagrams (visualize these while studying and taking
test)
Auditory learner-- try reciting the information
aloud. (Let a friend quiz you orally).
Kinetic learner-- try writing the information.
(Quiz yourself and write the answers down).
Create your own practice . Try to anticipate
questions.
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Memory Techniques
There are many memory techniques.
Mnemonics
Mnemonics are tricks, games, or rhymes that help you
remember something. Create a rhyme to help you remember
a concept with multiple parts.
Use acronyms
An acronym is a word formed by the first letter of other word.
Choose a key word that will help you remember each step.
Then, using the letter of each key word, create your acronym.
Associate to Remember
Association is the process of connecting new
information that you want to remember to something
you already know.
The Peg System
The Peg System uses numbers and letters to sequence
information
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About memory by Carl Seashore
The average man does not use above ten percent
of his actual inherited capacity for memory. He
wastes the ninety percent by violating the Natural
Laws of Remembering.
-Carl Seashore
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Natural Laws of Remembering
Impression
Association
Repetition
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Impression
Get a deep, vivid impression of the thing you wish to
remember.
Concentrate
Observe
Deep Observe
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Deep Observe
Observe
Look
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Quote by Edison
"The average person's brain does not
observe a thousandth part of what the
eye observes."
--Edison
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Link System
Peg System
Association
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The Link System
Associate or Link the first item to the second
item; then second item to the third item and so on.
See the associations as pictures in your mind.
association must be..
Illogical
Ridiculous
Out of Proportion
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E.g.. Rat,Cheese,Trap
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E.g.. Bicycle , Chain
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Refrigerator Refrigerator
Chair Chair
Table Table
Microwave oven Microwave oven
Television Television
Cup and Saucer Cup and Saucer
Window Window
Vessels Vessels
Electric Stove Electric Stove
Cupboard Cupboard
Simple Link System test
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Imagine Picture Like this
Problems with Linking..
It can not be used for
Numbers
Large Lists
To index an item in the list
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The Peg System
The PEG system will show you how
to count with objects,
instead of numbers.
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Mnemonics
1.------ T, D
2------- N
3 -------M
4 -------R
5 -------L
6 --------J, sh,G
7 --------K, c
8 --------F,v
9 --------P,b
0 --------Z ,s
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
TeN MoRe LoGiK FiB Z
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Peg words..
1-9-----TuB
7-1-----CoT
2-7-----NeCK
and so on
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How to memorize this number
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Mapping Numbers Using Peg System
Given number
672642
6- G
7- K
2- N
6- G
4- R
2- N
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Remembering Big Numbers
ChiCKeN Shoe-RuN
6 7 2 6 4 2 --- 672642
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Using Link + Peg
What else You can do?.
large size-Lists
important points
figures,numbers,dates
names,faces,events,facts
and more
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Repetition
Repeating at intervals,will enable you to memorize
anything you want.
R e p e t i t i o n


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What you have to do?.
Prepare
Practice Practice Practice...
Present
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What You will get..?.
Confidence
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