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Remembering is a three-stage process:
RECEPTION - Information enters through our five
senses.
RETENTION - It is held in short-term memory
until let go or transfers to long-term memory to be used
later.
RECOLLECTION - Requires effort to retrieve
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Try to Improve Your Memory:
- Decide to remember. This puts you in an active frame of mind.
- Review new information right away, even if only for a brief period
of time.
- Review all information on a regular basis.
- Use your senses and learning styles to facilitate reception, retention,
and recollection.
- Combine review with physical activity.
- Sing it, rhyme it, and dance it. Make it silly.
- Record the information and listen to it.
- Draw it - graphs, charts, pictures, flow charts, colors.
- Use acronyms such as ASAP for As Soon As Possible.
- Associate or relate new information to your experience or what you
already know.
- Review in small segments.
- Emotional associations are the strongest memories we have. Use them.
- Recite and repeat out loud and in writing, if necessary.
- Relax and visualize.
- Organize information in meaningful patterns.
- Create visual and/or physical prompts and place them where you'll
see them.
- Use key words to remember series and processes.
- Group information into small parts that you can remember.
- Learn more about how memory works. It will help you identify more
ways to improve.
Improving your memory takes effort and active
practice on your part. Developing good study skills in other areas,
such as active learning, concentration, time
management , and relaxation, will
help you remember and retrieve information for college.
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