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Peak Performance:
Success In College And
Beyond
Chapter 7
Improve 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 7
Focus 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
Author
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Memory Strategies
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Write it down
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Go from the general to the specific
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Reduce information
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Eliminate distractions
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Study in short sessions
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Use all your senses
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Memory Strategies
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Use mnemonic devices
 Rhymes and
rhythms
 Acronyms
 Acrostics
 Association
 Chunking
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Memory Strategies
 Stacking technique
 Method-of-place
technique
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Use note cards
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Recite
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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
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Do I want to remember?
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Do I have a positive attitude
about the information?
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Have I eliminated
distractions?
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Have I organized and
grouped material?
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Have I reviewed the
information often?
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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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Have I used
association and
compared and
contrasted new
material with what
I know?
“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
Author
Have I used memory techniques to
help associate key words?
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Peak Performance:
Success In College And
Beyond
Chapter 7
Improve Your Memory Skills
McGraw-Hill
Copyright © 2011 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.