October 23, 2009
Memorization Techniques - What Are Some Good Memorization Techniques
From older students who want to jumpstart their brains to those who find that a faulty memory often results in confusion and increasing difficulty with completing tasks there are several memorization techniques that can make learning, remembering, and comprehending a simpler task. In fact, research shows that most people only remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, and 30% of what they see. Thus, you can find comfort in the fact that you are not the only one who is probably seeking to increase your memory skills!
There are two types of learners: auditory and visual. Your fist task before using any of the memorization techniques is to figure out which type of learning suits you the best because then you can identify which memorization techniques will work the most effectively for you.
Visual learners may find that taking notes, collecting diagrams and charts, or writing out symbols with mnemonics may help stimulate the brain. For those who are auditory learners, notes, mnemonics, flash cards, and videotaping speeches can help. Mnemonics are also helpful for auditory learners if rewritten or if associated with symbols. Remembering patterns can also help you remember. A well known example of a mnemonic is HOMES, the first letter of each of the Great Lakes. The idea of memorization techniques is loosely the same for each technique, if you can give yourself a hint in the right direction you will better be able to fill in the blanks using your comprehension skills.
Also, while memorization games such as flash cards, memory, and other games may not help you learn urgent material, playing games that involve a significant amount of memory will help you identify your style of learning and stimulate your brain towards better memory. Thus, while you may not realize it, sharpening your brain can help you sharpen your memory for when you need it!
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October 21, 2009
Linking and Memory Techniques
There are some great memory improvement techniques you can learn. Techniques that will help in turning numbers into words, memorizing names and remembering shopping lists. Let’s discuss how to memorize a list of grocery items. We will use 4 items only but you will see the size of the list does not matter.
What we do in memory techniques is to take something we already know and associate it with something we want to remember. So we connect the 2 together or link them together. We can use what is called the “Roman Room” to link items together so we can bring them up in our mind later on.
The reason this works is because there are certain things you will not forget. You know where you live. You know how your house looks and what rooms there are. Assume that you are going to buy the following items from the store:
Bananas
Soap
Bread
Paper Towels
Pick any room in your house or apartment. Now we will associate the items in the list with something in the room you will choose. Imagine you walk into your living room and this is what you see:
Book Shelf
Table
TV
Couch
These are the first 4 things you see in sequence when you enter your living room. Take the items you want to remember on your shopping list and place them with one of the items in your living room or replace the item in your room with one from the list.
This is what you might see in your mind:
You walk into your living room and Bananas are shooting out of your Book Shelf. Some Bananas fall onto your Table and are skating on top of Soap. A bar of Soap slides off the Table and goes toward the TV, but the TV is not there. Instead there is a giant loaf of Bread. The giant Bread eats the Soap but throws it up all over your Couch. Out of your Couch come arms and they are holding Paper Towels and it starts to clean the mess on itself with the Paper Towels.
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