CRCB CHAPTER3

What is memory?

Memory is the processes of storing information, and as in any process, successive step or stages are essential for it to work.


Sensory memory

Sensory memory is the first stage in the memory process
New information enters your brain via your senses of taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing, but your sensory memory retains this information only for a fraction of a second.

1. Pay attention while reading
2. Use all your senses

Six strategies for improving sensory memory

1. Read your text aloud.
2. Draw picture of the information you are learning.
3. Act out a chapter in front of a mirror or an audience.
4. Visualize the information in your head.
5. Touch the textbook pages and use your fingers to point to new words.
6. Read while riding an exercise bike.

Short term or working memory

Short term memory is the second stage in the memory process.
Like sensory memory, it is temporary and limited in its capacity.
When learning textbook material, you need to consciously apply strategies at each stage of the memory process to ensure that what you read will become part of your long term memory.
The important thing to remember about short-term memory is that you must do something, use a memory strategy, to remain information.



Chunking

Chunking works by condensing the amount of information you have to learn.


Long term memory

Long term memory is the third and final stage in the memory proxess.
Strategies for remembering information long-term

Strategies for remembering information long-term

1. Organize newly learned information.

Even if you pay attention to what you are studying long enough for it to
Stay in your sensory memory, and understand it well enough to transfer
it to stay in your sensory memory, and understand it well enough to
transfer it into your short term memory, you won’t be able to find it
later unless you connect it to information already in your long-term
memory.

2. Master technical vocabulary

To remember something, you have to make sense of it first.

3. create a memory matrix

A matrix is an excellent way to learn and remember large information.
Creating and completing a memory matrix requires you to understand the material you are working on, actively think about what it means, and organize the information in a useful format.

4. connect new information to information you already know

The more you can relate new information to what you have already
learned, the better you will understand and remember it.
By connecting new information to old you make both more meaningful

*Strategies for connecting information*

The importance of purposely relating new information to what you already know cannot be overemphasized.

Strategy1: comparison.

Not the similarities between what you are studing and information you
already know.

Strategy2: addition

Add new information to more familiar information

Strategy3: exemplification

Provide concrete, familiar information


5. Go beyond textbook information

You can make stronger connections between newly learned information and prior knowledge by doing additional research on a new topic.

6. review

One of the most effective ways to embed new information into your long-term memory is to read and review it aloud.
Verbalizing and reading loud help you attend to the new information better, because you are using more of your senses and background lock out external distracters.



7. teach it

Another review technique that works well is to lecture aloud on the material you ate studying. Explaining something is an excellent way to find out how well you know and understand it.

Strategies for recalling information

1. mnemonics

Mnemonics are tricks you can use to help you recall information after you have understood and learned it

2. key words

Key words represent the topic or main ideas of the material you reading. Instead of trying to remember an entire chapter word-for-word, you can use them as memory cues by attaching related information to them.

3. acronyms

Acronyms are words created by using the first letters of each word or phrase that you intend to remember.
HOMES=Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.

4. acrostics

Acrostics are created by using the first letter of each item you need to remember to make a phrase or sentence.
Kingdom, phylum ,class, order, family, genus, and specises
=KPCOFGS