Memory Skills

Effective ___________________ Memory Skills

Instructor Dr.K. Sreenivasan

Shabeerali, A.V. [email protected]

“The average man does not use above ten percent of his actual inherited capacity for memory. He wastes the ninety percent by violating the Natural Laws of Remembering”. -Carl Seashore

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Natural Laws of Remembering Impression Association Repetition

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Impression Get a deep, vivid impression of the thing you wish to remember.  Concentrate  Observe  Deep

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Observe

Look Observe

Deep Observe

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Look Deep Observe Observe

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"The average person's brain does not observe a thousandth part of what the eye observes." --Edison

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Association Link System Peg System

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1. The Link System Associate or Link the first item to the second item; then second item to the third item and so on. See the associations as pictures in your mind.

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…association must be.. • Illogical • Ridiculous • Out of Proportion

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E.g.. Rat,Cheese,Trap

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E.g.. Bicycle , Chain

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Problems with Linking.. It can not be used for…  Numbers  Large Lists  To index an item in the list

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2. The Peg System The PEG system will show you how to count with objects, instead of numbers.

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Mnemonics 1.------ T, D

6 --------J, sh,G

2------- N

7 --------K, c

3 -------M

8 --------F,v

4 -------R

9 --------P,b

5 -------L

0 --------Z ,s

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90 TeN MoRe LoGiK FiB Z 21/29

Peg words.. 1-9-----TuB 7-1-----CoT 2-7-----NeCK and so on…

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Remembering Big Numbers

ChiCKeN – Shoe-RuN 6 7 2 6 4 2 --- 672642 23/29

Using Link + Peg What else You can do…?. large size-Lists important points figures,numbers,dates names,faces,events,facts and more…

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Repetition Repeating at intervals,will enable you to memorize anything you want.

Repeating at intervals,will enable you to memorize anything you want.

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20’ not enough… Overview about the NLR(memory systems).  Who can memorize?.  How to train your memory ?.

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What you have to do?. Prepare Practice Practice Practice... Present

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What You will get..?.

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“My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch anything on it. But almost impossible, after you get it there,to rub it out”. -Lincoln 29/29