Hints for Remembering Better

[marieelissa]

Hints for Remembering Better
Understand thoroughly what is to be remembered and/or memorized
Spot what is to be memorized verbatim. It is a good plan to use a special marking symbol in text and notebook to indicate parts and passages, rules, data, and all other information that is to be memorized instead of just understood and remembered
If verbatim memory is required, go over the material or try to repeat at odd times.
Think about what you are trying to learn. Find an interest in the material if you wish to memorize it with ease.
Study first the items that you want to remember longest.
Learn complete units at one time, as that is the way it will have to be recalled.
Overlearn to make certain.
Analyze material and strive to intensify the impressions the material makes.
Use concrete imagery whenever possible. Close your eyes and get a picture of the explanation and summary answer. Try to see it on the page. See the key words underlined.
Make your own applications, examples, and illustrations.
Reduce the material to be remembered to your own self-made system or series of numbered steps.
Represent the idea graphically by use of pictorial or diagrammatic forms.
Make a list of key words most useful in explaining the idea or content of the lesson.
Form a variety of associations among the points you wish to remember. The richer the associations, the better the memory.
Try making the idea clear to a friend without referring to your book or notes.
Actually write out examination questions on the material you think you might get at the end of the term. Then write the answers to your own questions. Since you now have the chance, consult the text or your notes to improve your answers.
Follow suggestions for reviewing. This is an important part of remembering.

[loulizlee]

Thank you, MarieElissa, for your post about remembering.  As an older person, I have begun in recent years to have more and more memory problems.  I was very concerned at first that it was something scarier (Alzhimer's), but I have come to believe it's just your garden variety forgetfulness.  It didn't help that I have had two major brain traumas from falls in my lifetime.    When I was working and had to use the telephone a lot, I would have to make notes to myself before placing calls just to remember details that I wanted to discuss. It is also very embarrassing, sometimes, when I forget names.  The thing I miss most, though, is memories of my earlier years.  My younger siblings can remember people and places that are either vague to me or completely forgotten.  My old stand-by in most situations when I'm trying to remember something specific is to go through the alphabet in my head.
P.S.  I love your butterfly and other pictures.

[anubabs]

This is too long for me to remember...lol

[deffman]

i can't remember all of that...I guess my son was right I do have a short attention span

[toyahi]

humm what did I just read?  I laugh about it but it really is a problem with we older generation.  Our memory is slipping away  from up. Our long term memory will stick around but what we ate yesterday for supper of if we paid a bill (short Term memory) these things wll slip away from us.  Hang in there you're not alone.

[mollydog75]

Hi thanks for that,
I am only 56 yrs old.
I reallly cant remember what I just read-
I HAVE short term memory loss
I know this for a fact...
The Drs told me this.
I had brain surgery this past May.
I have had to re-learn some things.
But the good side is, I am on my way back
If I don't get lost
I look on the brite side of things, I am here.
Postive attitude,(CHECK) SeNSE of Humor(CHECK) AND-

Lots of "Post its" They do  come in handy.

[mh874892]

That was a very long list that is hard to remember, haha.
The easiest thing for me is: Introduce yourself to the material, Study the material, Summarize, then Review. The more times you see it, the more likely you are to remember. And, make things easier for you whether it is by singing songs, making rhymes, making charts, forming outlines, or anything like that. This is more from a school-type of studying standpoint, but still helpful I think.
(Sorry just finished finals so brain is still somewhat in test mode!!)

[inluvwitmm]

Thankfully I knew most of these hints when I was still in school - some I learned in class, others were kind of common sense to me. Last week, I actually taught my little cousin a remembering tip/hint for her "mental math" test.

[ejholt]

This is too long for me to remember...lol

Sometimes I forget and it get worse as I get older.  The other day I forgot to get my teeth and have to turn around and come back and get them.  I can not remember people names either and that makes me feel so bad.  I remembers faces though. 

[sempermade]

Re:  Hints for Remembering Better.....but BETTER to Remember this:  "People Will Forget What You Said, People Will Forget What You Did, but People Will Never Forget How You Made Them Feel.”---Maya Angelou

I really enjoy that quote!