1. Study Skills: Memory
Learning to study, comprehend, and
remember

3. Tips for Effective Studying
 Make studying a part of your daily routine.
 Manage your study time wisely.
 Collaborate with others.
 Make your learning style work for you.
 Be alert for external distractions.
 Get enough sleep.
 Follow a regular exercise program.
 Get a tutor.

4. Studying to Understand and
Remember
 Pay attention to what you’re hearing or
reading.
 “Overlearn” the material.
 Check the Internet.
 Be sure you have the big picture.
 Look for connections between your life
and what’s going on in your courses.
 Get organized.
 Reduce stressors in your life.

5. Short Term vs. Long Term
Memory
Short-Term Memory Long-Term Memory
Stores information for about 30 Procedural: remembering how to do
seconds something
Can contain from 5 to 9 chunks of Semantic: remembering facts and
information at one time meanings
Information either forgotten or moved Episodic: remembering the time and
to long-term memory place of events

6. Information Processing Model
 How Does Information Get In And Out Of
My Memory? http://bit.ly/ofGbnS

7. Why Do I Forget?
 Within one hour you can forget up to 50%
of what you have just learned. WHY?
 Selective Attention
 Pseudo Forgetting
 Decay Theory
 Interference

8. What Techniques Do YOU Use to
Remember Things?

9. Notable Notes from PPT
 Slides from class
 Syllabus as guide
 Summarize lecture/lab notes
 What are the key points?
 Do you ask yourself
questions?
 Review tips:
 Flash cards
 Re-write
 Note summary
 Discuss
 Teach – talk it out or explain

10. Taking Notes in Class
 What’s YOUR
preferred
method for
note-taking?
 Cornell
Method

11. Deep Learning
 Goal is to truly understand
course material
 Involves actively
constructing learning
experiences
 Leads to better memory
retention
 Deep learners enjoy the
process of learning for its
own sake
 Deep learners use more
thinking skills

12. Memory Myths vs. Reality
 Reality: Virtually anyone can
 Myth: Some people have improve the ability to
bad memories remember and recall
 Myth: Some people have  Reality: Research shows that
photographic memories these abilities result more
 Myth: Memory benefits from often from learned strategies
long hours of practice  Reality: The way you practice
 Myth: Remembering too is more important than how
much can clutter your mind long you practice
 Myth: People use only 10%  Reality: Your storage
of their brain power capacity is unlimited. How
you organize is more
important than the quantity.
 Reality: No evidence to prove
how much we actually use

13. Remember THIS!
 Elaborative
rehearsal
 Generation Effect
 Dual Coding
 State & context
 Spacing Effect

14. Tips for Improving Your Memory
 Mnemonics
 Acronyms – New words created from the first
letters of several words.
 Acrostics – A verse in which certain letters of
each word or line form a message.
 Rhymes or songs
 Visualization – Use to associate
words, concepts, or stories with visual
images.

15. What Mnemonics Do You Use?
Never Eat Shredded Wheat

16. Try a Word Web

17. More Memory Ideas…
 Generation Effect
 Define, summary, flash cards, teaching
 Spacing
 Repeat, repeat, repeat!
 Review (cramming = bad)
 Dual Coding
 Narrative, linking, imagery, loci

18. Tips for Improving Your Memory
 Using Review Sheets, Mind
Maps and other tools
 Review sheets – Use your notes
to make lists of key terms and
ideas that you need to remember.
 Mind map – Like a review sheet,
with a visual element.
 Flash cards – Carry them with you
everywhere!

19. Visualize with Mind Maps

20. Tips for Improving Your Memory
 Summaries
 Predict a test question from your lecture notes.
 Read all assignments, marking main ideas as you go.
 Analyze and abstract. What is the purpose?
 Connect main points and supporting details.
 Select, condense, and order.
 Write your ideas precisely in a draft.
 Review your draft.
 Test your memory.
 Schedule time to review summaries, and double
check your memory before the test.