How To Improve Your Memory
Michael Cummings-What's the title again?
Helpful Hints
- Remove any distracting things, such as electronics, pets, and sounds from your study area.
- Study notes in regular sessions before the test/quiz day.
- Organize study material in a sensible way that you like.
- Try to connect words or concepts to things in your life that make sense.
- Chunking similar information together while studying helps with memorization.
Tantalizing Tips
- Repetition of notes and terms aids in committing information to short-term memory.
- Review your study materials multiple times to help commit it to memory.
- Visualize concepts in a picture to help in recalling the information easier.
- TEACH THE MATERIAL TO SOMEONE ELSE! This is one of the best ways to remember something, and you can learn more about the material by teaching someone else.
- GET LOTS OF SLEEP IN THE WEEK PRIOR TO THE TEST! It has been proven that sleep helps greatly in committing learned things to long-term memory.
Organized Study Area
This is a good example of a plain, organized study area. This will help reduce distracting stimuli and make encoding memories easier.
Repetition
This is a great way to commit vocabulary words to your short-term memory, and then to your long-time memory.
Sleep
Sleep allows the brain to rest, recover, and store all important information from the day. When you sleep, your brain stores things that it deems important from the day, as well as rest from being used constantly throughout the day.
Wrap Up
You can use these helpful hints and tantalizing tips to help you study and remember things better. These tips will make remembering notes easier, and recalling facts during a test easier.