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Peak Performance:Peak Performance:Success In College And Success In College And
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Chapter 7Improve Your Memory Skills
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Learning Outcomes
Apply the five-step memory process
Describe memory strategies, including mnemonic devices
Summarize, review, and reflect for better retention and recall
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Success Principle 7Success Principle 7Focus on the SUM, not the
parts
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The Memory Process
1. Intention
2. Attention
3. Association
4. Retention
5. Recall
“An education isn’t about how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.”Anatole France
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Memory Strategies
• Write it down
• Go from the general to the specific
• Reduce information
• Eliminate distractions
• Study in short sessions
• Use all your senses
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Memory Strategies• Use mnemonic devices
Rhymes and
rhythms
Acronyms
Acrostics
Association
Chunking
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Memory Strategies
Stacking technique
Method-of-place technique
• Use note cards
• Recite
• Practice, practice, practice
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Summarize, Review, And Reflect
Summarize in your own words as soon as possible
Carry note cards
Go beyond studying for tests.
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Overcome Obstacles• Do I want to remember?
• Do I have a positive attitude about the information?
• Have I eliminated distractions?
• Have I organized and grouped material?
• Have I reviewed the information often?
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Overcome Obstacles
• Have I reviewed right after the lecture? Within 24 hours?
• Have I set up weekly reviews?• Have I visualized what I want to
remember?• Have I used repetition?• Have I summarized material in my
own words?
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Overcome Obstacles
• Have I used association and compared and contrasted new material with what I know?
• Have I used memory techniques to help associate key words?
“No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.”Louis L’amour
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Peak Performance:Peak Performance:Success In College And Success In College And
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Chapter 7Improve Your Memory Skills
