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What Memory Techniques Can Do |
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Memory techniques can, however, supercharge your learning in a very powerful way. They can also make you a much more effective person in every aspect of your life. |
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Memory techniques cannot improve memory. Your biological memory quality is determined by your genes, your physiology and, perhaps, diet and lifestyle. What memory techniques can do, however, is support your memory by training other cognitive abilities. These include: association, chunking and image formation. The final result can be as if you had an extremely superior memory. |
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They Can Increase Your Ability to Remember and Recall Things Many-fold |
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The effective use of memory techniques will not simply improve your ability to store, retain and recall information marginally. There is no doubt whatsoever that their use can enhance such ability many, many-fold. |
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Storing, Retaining and Retrieving |
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There are techniques which focus upon the storage part of memory. These are based on chunking. Techniques which focus upon retention are such things as periodic recall and correction. These techniques focus upon the serial reproduction effect: the natural pattern of memory effectiveness. We tend to remember the earliest parts of a series of knowledge and the most recent parts. We remember least well the middle parts. Techniques which focus upon increasing retention make a person recall and correct material in the middle parts of the series. Strategies which focus upon the retrieval aspect are based on association. |
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Getting More out of Your Time |
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Training your memory can make you a more effective person in many ways. |
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It can prevent you losing ideas for want of an opportunity to write them down. It can relieve you of having to make excuses for things you've forgotten to do. It can also save you time trying to find things you've misplaced. |
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