To improve our memory and retrieval capacity, it's helpful to understand how we remember.

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How your Memory Works?

• To improve our memory and retrieval capacity,
  it's helpful to understand how we remember.

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What is memory?

• Memory is the mental process of recalling
  information that you have learned or experienced.
  It can be short-term or long-term.

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Short-term memory (STM)

• STM is characterized by a limited capacity of up
  to seven chunks of independent information the
  brief duration of these items usually. last
  within 20 seconds
• The longer a memory stayed in STM and of
  well-organized, the more likely it was to be
  placed into LTM In this process of organization,
  the meaningfulness or emotional content of an
  item may play a crucial role in its retention
  into LTM.

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Long-term memory (LTM)

• LTM provides the framework to which we attach new
  knowledge. It allows information to be stored for
  extended periods of time and the limits of its
  capacity are not known.

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Stages of memory

• Our brains go through the following stages of
  memory

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Guidelines to improve your memory
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• Keep a motivated mind and positive attitude. Tell
  yourself that you want to learn what you need to
  remember, and that you can learn and remember it.
  
• Pay attention. You cant remember something if
  you never learned it, and you cant learn
  something if you dont pay enough attention to
  it. No multitasking when you need to concentrate.

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Acquire knowledge with your preferable learning
style.

• Most people are visual learners they learn best
  by seeing what it is they have to know. Auditory
  learners who learn better by listening. They
  might benefit by recording information they need
  and listening to it until they remember it.

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Make use of different senses to acquire the
knowledge.

• If youre a visual learner, read out loud what
  you want to remember. If you can recite it
  rhythmically, even better. Re-writing
  information can help enhancing ones memory for
  kinesthetic learners try to relate information
  to colors, textures, smells and tastes.

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• Relate information to what prior knowledge.
  Connect new data to information you already know.

• Understand and Organize information. Take your
  own notes and reorganize them into categories.
  Make use of words and pictures to process the
  information. Focus on understanding basic
  concepts rather than memorizing isolated details.
   

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Rehearse and over-learn information periodically.

• Review what youve learned the same day you learn
  it, and then review them periodically. Spacing
  your studies is more effective than cramming.
  Over-learn the materials / information can lessen
  your anxiety during examinations.

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Reference

• http//www.helpguide.org/life/improving_memory.htm
  
• http//www.sos.net/donclark/hrd/learning/memory.h
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