Memory Skills

Memory Skills

1. Cramming doesn't work

2. How Memory Works

   • Sensory Memory
     • Processes everything you detect in the real, physical world
     • Loses this information almost immediately
     • What you do remember is information that goes into your short term or working memory

3. Mimonics

   • Associating information with thing that are easy to remember

4. Spacing Learning Out Over Time

5. Your brain latches onto thing that are more visual and unusual than abstract or boring things

6. Spaced Repetition

   • To steadily increase the amount of time in between each study session