tailieunhanh - The marterial 8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the marterial 8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | five and nine items at one time in our short-term memories but we can store an infinite number of items in our long-term memories. Let s say you are studying in a chair at the library reading about cumulus clouds. The girl sitting next to you smells like violets just like your grandmother whom you miss terribly. You are likely to remember more about cumulus clouds even the layout of the page the text was on because of the emotional attachment your nose and your brain just made. It s true As a student you may learn something at the beginning of the semester that you want to retain for the final exam. For this reason you will need to move it from short-term memory to long-term memory. You subconsciously do this all the time especially with something you have an emotional attachment to such as the memory of picking out your first puppy at the pound. On the other hand some things belong in short-term memory they would just clutter up the long-term side. For instance you learn the Rialto Movie Palace s phone number just long enough to dial up the recording of show times and then your short-term memory disposes of it. So how do you turn short-term memorization into long-term remembering With the secrets of mnemonics that s how. WHAT ARE MNEMONICS ANYWAY As a child did you chant i before e except after c Do you still If so you will probably never forget how to spell brief or receive. Mnemonics are memory tricks that can help us to remember what we need to know. Rhyming such as i before e except after c is one kind of mnemonic device. This chapter highlights several specific mnemonic devices so you can file and retrieve important information for upcoming exams apply what you learn to how you live enjoy learning for its own satisfaction and share it with others Besides rhymes and songs two popular mnemonic devices that you may have already tried are acronyms and acrostics. Other memory secrets include chunking and visualization techniques such as the place and peg methods .