Eng 333 Creative

Akash Kapadia

ENG 333

Improving Your Memory

Objective:

Students will learn how to improve their memory with various techniques and steps.

Materials:

1. You

2. Your creative mind

Methods used to Improve Memory:

1. Using Mnemonic Devices

a. Using association to remember facts, numbers

b. Chunking

c. Using Rhymes ,Acronyms, and Acrostics

2. Other Tricks

d. Remembering a person’s name

e. Moving Eyes from Side-Side

f. Smell Rosemary

g. Use Your Environment

h. Exercise Your Brain

i. Deepen Your Breathing

3. Improving Your Lifestyle

j. Organize Your Life

k. Exercise Daily

l. Reduce Stress

m. Eat Well and Eat Right

n. Sleep well

Using Mnemonic Devices

a. Association to remember facts and numbers:

* To use association effectively, you can create an image in your mind to help you remember a word or an image

* Let’s say if you keep forgetting your student ID, just break down the number into smaller chunks and create images associated with those chunks.

* An example is if you have a hard time remembering that JFK was the president involved in the Bay of Pigs just picture the president swimming in an ocean surrounded by pigs.

b. Chunking:

* Way of grouping things together to help you memorize them.

* Categorizing things will make your life easier

* Let us say someone was having difficult time remembering their grocery list, here is an example showing how one can categorize the grocery list to remember:

c. Using Rhymes, Acronyms, and Acrostics:

* Using a variety of common and silly rhymes can help you recall basic information

* Ex: "In fourteen-hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

* Acronyms are another wonderful tool for remembering a variety of things, from the names of the five Great Lakes to the words used as conjunctions. 

* Ex: HOMES: Huron, Ontario,...