Your Memory How It Works and How to Improve It

by Higbee, Kenneth L.

• ISBN13: 9781569246290
• ISBN10: 1569246297
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-27
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Summary

Do you want to stop forgetting appointments, birthdays, and other important dates? Work more efficiently at your job? Study less and get better grades? Remember the names and faces of people you meet?The good news is that it's all possible. Your Memory will help to expand your memory abilities beyond what you thought possible. Dr. Higbee reveals how simple techniques, like the Link, Loci, Peg, and Phonetic systems, can be incorporated into your everyday life and how you can also use these techniques to learn foreign languages faster than you thought possible, remember details you would have otherwise forgotten, and overcome general absentmindedness. Higbee also includes sections on aging and memory and the latest information on the use of mnemonics.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: What Can You Expect From This Book?	xi
Why Did I Write It?
Why Should You Read It?
What Will You Find in It?
What Can You Expect From Your Memory? Ten Myths	1	(15)
Memory Is a Thing
There Is a Secret to a Good Memory
There Is an Easy Way to Memorize
Some People Are Stuck with Bad Memories
Some People Are Blessed with Photographic Memories
Some People Are Too Old/Young to Improve Their Memories
Memory, Like a Muscle, Benefits from Exercise
A Trained Memory Never Forgets
Remembering Too Much Can Clutter Your Mind
People Only Use 10 Percent of Their Mental Potential
Meet Your Memory: What Is It?	16	(16)
What Are the Stages and Processes of Memory?
What Is Short-term Memory?
What Is Long-term Memory?
What Are the Measures of Memory?
What Is the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon?
Meet Your Memory: How Does It Work?	32	(14)
How and Why Do We Forget?
How Fast Do We Forget?
How Do We Remember Pictures Versus Words?
How Do Exceptional Memories Work?
How Well Does Sleep Leaming Work?
How To Remember Almost Anything: Basic Principles	46	(16)
Meaningfulness: ``That Doesn't Make Sense''
Organization: ``Get It All Together''
Association: ``That Reminds Me''
Visualization: ``I Can See It All Now''
Attention: ``I Don't Get It''
How To Remember Almost Anything Else: More Basic Principles	62	(12)
Repetition: ``What Was That Again?''
Relaxation: ``Take It Easy''
Context: ``Where Am I?''
Interest: ``What's It to Ya?''
Feedback: ``How Are You Doing?''
Strategies For Effective Learning: Study Skills	74	(19)
Reduce Interference
Space It Out
Break It up?
Recite It
Use a Study System
How Well Do the Principles and Strategies Work?
Working Miracles With Your Memory: An Introduction To Mnemonics	93	(20)
What Are Mnemonics?
First Letters and Keywords
Basic Principles of Mnemonics
How to Make Effective Visual Associations
More on Effective Mnemonics
The Legitimacy Of Mnemonics: Limitations And Pseudo-Limitations	113	(18)
Some Limitations of Mnemonics
Some Pseudo-Limitations of Mnemonics
Mental Filing Systems: Link And Story Mnemonics	131	(13)
Your Mental Filing System
What Is the Link System?
What Is the Story System?
How Well Do the Link and Story Systems Work?
How Can You Use the Link and Story Systems?
Mental Filing Systems: Loci Mnemonic	144	(13)
What Is the Loci System?
How Well Does the Loci System Work?
How Can You Use the Loci System?
Mental Filing Systems: Peg Mnemonic	157	(15)
What Is the Peg System?
How Well Does the Peg System Work?
How Can You Use the Peg System?
Mental Filing Systems: Phonetic Mnemonic	172	(16)
What Is the Phonetic System?
How Well Does the Phonetic System Work?
How Can You Use the Phonetic System?
Using Mnemonics: Remembering People's Names And Faces	188	(15)
How Do We Remember Names and Faces?
A System for Remembering Names and Faces
How Well Does the System Work?
Using Mnemonics: Absentmindedness And Education	203	(16)
Absentmindedness
Prospective Remembering
Retrospective Remembering
Mnemonics in Education
Memory in Education
Appendix: Keywords For The Phonetic System	219	(4)
Chapter Notes	223	(32)
Index	255