Chapter 3 CRCB Remembering What You Read

What is MemoryMemory is the process of storing information, and as in any process, successive steps or stages are essential for it to work.

Sensory MemorySensory Memory is the first stage in the memory process.

Six Strategies for Improving Sensory Memory.1. Read your text aloud. Reading and hearing help visual and auditory learners.
2. Draw pictures. Seeing and touching help visual and kinesthetic learners.
3. Act out a chapter. Hearing, seeing and doing help all types of learners.
4. Visualize. Seeing helps visual learners.
5. Touch. Seeing and touching help visual and kinesthetic learners.
6. Read. Seeing and doing help visual and kinesthetic learners.

Short-term memory is the second stage in the memory process
Chunking
The strategy you just used is called chunking. Chunking works by condensing the amount of information you have to learn.

Long-Term MemoryLong-Term Memory is the third and final stage in the memory process. Information cannot be permanently stored there until it has passed through both the sensory and short-term memory stages.

Strategies for Remembering Information Long-Term1. Organize Newly Learned Information
2. Master Technical Vocabulary
3. Create a Memory Matrix
4. Connect New Information to Information You Already Know
Strategies for Connecting Information
1. Comparison
2. Addition
3. Exemplification
5. Go beyond Textbook Information
6. Review
7. Teach It

Strategies for Recalling InformationMnemonicsMnemonics are tricks you can use to help you recall in formation after you have understood and learned it.
A memory cue helps you locate information in a similar way to a telephone hotline.

Key WordsKey words represent the topic or main ideas of the material you are reading

AcronymsAcronyms are words created by using the first letters of each word or phase that you intend to remember.

AcrosticsAcrostics are created by using the first letter of each item you need to remember to make a phrase or sentence.