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Memory Techniques
Gary Millns BPP Professional Education Jersey Tel: 01534 711811 Email: [email protected]
Ingredients for good study habits
Course Content
• Introduction • How the Memory Works • What the Memory likes • Memory Techniques -Peg test -Linkage -Journey Method -Story Method -Roman Room Method • Speed Reading • Mind Mapping
Objective
• At the end of this session you will be able to: – Explain how the mind works – Explain what the brain likes – Demonstrate at least 3 different memory techniques
How’s your memory?
9. Brush 3. Stethoscope 8. Honey 5. Alley 2. Tree 6. Tile 4. Sofa 10. Toothpaste 1. Atom 7. Windscreen
You have 60 seconds to memorise these items
Effective Study
In school, were you ever taught anything about: • Your brain, and how understanding its functions could help you learn, memorise and think?
• How your eye functions when you are learning and about how you can use this knowledge to your advantage?
• Concentration and how to maintain it when necessary?
• How to make notes and how and when to review them?
The Memory Fallacy
How good is your memory?
Does it get worse as you get older?
The memory is like a muscle: the more you use it the better it gets. The more it is neglected, the worse it gets.
Adult learning – trained out of using imagination and less structured
It’s only worse if you allow it to be!!
You have a fantastic memory!
• Dreams • Surprise random recall • Perfect memory • Capacity of a brain cell • Penfield’s experiments – Stimulating a past experience • Configuration of brain cells • Near death experience • Photographic memory • 1000 photographs • Results from memory techniques
Reasons why people resist change
• Ability – Can’t do it!
• Uncertainty – Will it work?
• Loss of Control – I’ve always done it my way!
• Different tasks – Yes, it may be different • More work – More investment; Less work
Your Amazing Brain
How it works… Walk through the woods • Immediate Memory • Short term memory • Long term memory
Your Amazing Brain
A huge Telephone Exchange
Fundamental Principles
• Association – Linking things together • Eg Song from your holidays • Imagination – Using visualisations • Eg Remembering a holiday • Location – Provide a context • To differentiate between information
Your Amazing Brain
Your brain enjoys… • Senses – See; Hear; Taste; Touch; Smell • Association – Linking to something familiar • Patterns – Order; Regularity • Wholeness – Complete picture; Understandable
Learning Styles
• Visual – Written information, notes, diagrams, pictures.
• Visual appeal.
• Auditory – Spoken word. Listen and take notes later.
• Auditory clues and music.
• Kinaesthetic – Touch and movement. Imitation and practice.
• Performing actions. Using tools.
Br ain Po we r
Let’s practice using your imagination!
James I 1603
What your brain enjoys • Sensuality • Movement • Association •
Sexuality
• Humour • Imagination • Number • • Symbolism (£ %)
C ol o u r
• • Order and sequence • Positivity
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SMASHIN’ SCOPE
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Acronyms Peg Test – Number / Shape system Linkage system Journey system Story Method Roman Room Method Major System
Acronyms
“A word formed from the initial letters of other words”
• BBC • NATO • BPP • SMASHIN’SCOPE
Exercise 1 – Peg test (Number/Rhyme)
1. Atom 2. Tree 3. Stethoscope 4. Sofa 5. Alley 6. Tile 7. Windscreen 8. Honey 9. Brush 10. Toothpaste
You have 60 seconds to memorise these items Number/Rhyme or Number/Shape System
Exercise 2 – Linkage System
Wallpaper Mountain Skirt String Ice Cream Scissors Power Nail Watch Nurse Plant Elephant Safe Jail Mirror Perfume Melon Mongrel Suitcase Engraving
Read through the list only once and then see how many you can remember!
Exercise 3 - Journey System
Journey from BPP, Jersey to the Bus Station.
• Front door • KB • Scruffy Murphy’s • Atlantique Seafood Bar • The Cows • Hallmark cards • Soleil Levant • Dorothy Perkins • Boots
Remember these!
1. toilet roll 2. oranges 3. toffee 4. petrol 5. nuts 6. bread 7. newspaper 8. wine 9. flowers 10. eggs
Journey Method
• 6 Activities of a HR Department – Recruitment – Pay and Benefits – Training & Development – Staff Satisfaction – Social Events – Release
Exercise 4a – Story method
• Close your eyes and visualise going through the actions as the story is read out to you.
Exercise 4b - Story method
• Mercury • Venus • Earth • Mars • Jupiter • Saturn • Uranus • Neptune • Pluto
Make a story out of these words
Exercise 5 – Roman Room method
• Objects or people in a room that you know Eg: The Queen President Obama Madonna Me Dom / Res Non Dom / Non Res Non Dom / Res Dom / Non Res
The Major Memory System
• Advanced Peg Test • The system works by linking words to a number system via the sounds that they make • Learn the Peg and link associations to it
Remembering names
• Face Association – Try to find an unusual feature to create an association with their name • Eg Someone else you know, rhyme or image • Repetition – Repeat name or ask for name to be repeated • Use often (without over doing it!!) • Exchange Business cards • Make a note
Other Ideas
• Blank templates – – Football Club; Fashion House • Amalgamate techniques – – Journey method / time line + Visualisations • Practice your visualisations – Let your imagination run wild!
• Incorporate into speed reading and mind mapping
Ingredients for good study habits
Objective
• At the end of this session you will be able to: – Explain how the mind works – Explain what the brain likes – Demonstrate at least 3 different memory techniques
Memory Techniques Thank you attending Give it a go!!
Gary Millns BPP Professional Education Jersey Tel: 01534 711811 Email: [email protected]