Total Newbie

Well im 15 and my memory is getting bad is it cause of all the hours i spend killing my brain cells a day on the pc? How can i improve memory?

Pj-Macx

Eight Ways to Improve your Memory

The purpose of a memory device is to create a way of putting information together that makes it easy to remember.
Grouping: Rearrange large numbers of items into smaller units of logical or artificial groups.
Examples:

Arrange a large series of numbers into smaller groups.
568324814: 568 324 814

Classify according to type:
Arrange Shakespeare's 37 plays into the logical groups of comedy, history, tragedy.


Rhyming: Use the poetic methods of sound in rhyming, rhythm or alliteration.
Examples:

In order, what happened to Henry VIII's wives?
Died, Beheaded, Died
Died, Beheaded, Survived.

Grammatical rule: i before e except after c or when sounded as a as in neighbor and weigh.

Spelling: Take the first letters or syllables to form a new word that spells out the information.
Examples:

H.O.M.E.S.: (The 5 Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.)

PEWSAGL.: The 7 deadly sins: pride, envy, sloth, avarice, gluttony, lust.

ROY G. BIV: The 7 colors of the visual spectrum?
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

Narrating: Use the imaginative process to create a sentence, a story, a cartoon or a visual picture.
Examples:

Every Good Boy Deserves Fun (Notes of the musical scale)

The OLFACTORY man went to the OPTIC store where he bought an OCULOMOTOR. He bot into his TROCHLEAR TRIGEMINAL car and drove home to ABDUCENT with a joyous...FACIAL expression. By the AUDITORY sound of his car his wife GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL and son VAGUS knew he was home. They showed him the SPINAL ACCESSORY they had purchased at the HYPOGLOSSAL store.(The twelve cranial nerves.)

Mapping: Structure a diagrammatic representation of the relationship between major ideas, sub categories, and supporting details.
Example:

Textbook Study

Linking: Connect a list of unrelated items though exaggerated, ridiculous or absurd associations.
Example:

1 MERCURY thermometer was in the mouth of VENUS, with-the-2- on-her-toe-goddess-of-love. Her navel was a huge EARTH with a 3 on it. On the other side of her mouth was a 4 star MARS candy bar. The 5 fingers of her hand and wrist spelled out JUPITER. 6 rings of SATURN were turning around her head while above it 7 rain drops of URANUS were falling and gradually became 8 musical notes for a NEPTUNE. Amazingly Venus was standing on PLUTO the dog whose tail was curled into a 9. (The seven planets in order.)

Placing: Place units of information in terms of location or chronology.
Example:

Maslow's pyramical hierarchy of human needs:
self-actualization
ego needs: status, pride, knowledge, self- respect
social needs: love, belonging, acceptance, association
security needs: psychological & physical safety
basic (physiological) needs: food, water, air, sex, activity, rest shelter


Experiencing: Act out or go through the motions to get the feel of an idea.
Examples:

Foreign language terms: déja-vu

Any new term: psychotherapeutic
Use a pencil to write out the word: then use the index
finger to trace over the shape of the word.

I got the above information from the following site...
http://www.dvc.edu/english/Learning_...ove_memory.htm

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fredpo

I"m a psychology major and I'm come to my own inductive theory. You will remember what you want to remember. Think about all the stuff you like and enjoy (lifting, supplements, etc.) Now think about scientific terms and other stuff that may really bore you. I bet it's a lot easier to remember the "fun" stuff right. Remember, you only get out of school or life what you put into it. Just my 2 cents on this subject.

Fred

LOVERG1RL

HAR HAR, I'm losing my memory too. I'm such an easy forgetter, one minute I get up to do something the next, I question what was I suppose to do? :p