Memory Tips

R-O-U

2. Rehearsal

The more we
rehearse something,
the better we know it.

4. Understand:
Semantic Learning

Difficult to remember
what we don’t
understand

3. Overlearn

Continue rehearsing
after the point of
mastery

T-T

5. Timely Feedback

We learn by failing
but
if we don’t know

we’re failing, how
can we learn from
it?

Failure is better

learned in a low
consequence
activity and we know we failed RIGHT after failing

6. Testing Effect

the finding that taking a test on

previously studied material
leads to better retention
than does restudying that
material for an equivalent
amount of time

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7. Overcome the Serial
Position Effect

SPE - We tend to
forget the middle of
lists more than the
beginning and end.

8. Mnemonic Devices

A Mnemonic device is a

trick to remember

Songs, sayings, rhymes…

1) Acronyms

a)

Word Made from the
first letters of the items
to be learned
(ROYGBIV, NASA)
i)NKOTB

ii)

BSB

iii)

CROUTONSS

2) Acrostic Sentences

Sentence made up of
words derived from
first letters of the items
to be learned.
MVEMJSUN

My Very Excellent...

PEMDAS

3) Word association

Hippocampus

Mnemonic Device Continued

4. Method of Loci:

Visualize items to be

learned stored in a specific location

5. Peg Board

Peg words are

associated with ideas
particularly useful for
learning lists of items

9. Spacing Effect

Spaced out is better than

cramming!

If we review immediately

after we learn we will
retain more
information.

◼ Cramming does help….

▫ but only for retrieval,

not encoding

BUT
Spaced Out is Better!

10. Self-Reference Effect

Take advantage of the

self-reference effect

◼ Relate material to

your own life…

◼ Real life examples

◼ Video Clips

◼ Any way to make the

information personal