Introduction to human

Memory Strategies for the Older and Not so Older There are many strategies adults can use to improve memory. Below is a list of some of these strategies. Describe how these may play a role in your studying. Discuss how these strategies may help someone who is having more difficulties recalling information and encoding information (refer to Chapter 8, Module 8.2 for definitions of recall and encoding). Then, practice at least two of these strategies listed with something you need to memorize–for class or for life. Describe how effective they were at improving your memory. Review and repeat: The more times you repeat information the more likely you are to remember it. When students are learning new information they should review the material multiple times. Repeat it and write it: When you write something down, you are using multiple senses to experience the information. You have the movement of writing, the visual of seeing what you write and this is another way of repeating the information. Self-referent encoding: When we find a way to make the material personally meaningful, we are more likely to remember it. Acronyms: Create a word made up from the first letters of a list of word. When we were young and learning the lines of the music staff we used “Every good boy does fine” to memorize EGBDF. Chunking: Break up information into small chunks. Visualization: Visualize what you are learning in your head to create a picture. Association: Connect each new piece of learning to something you already know. Teaching: The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. This can even be your dog! Rhyming or songs: Put the new information into a new rhyme or song and practice it. For full points, your response should be a minimum of five paragraphs and should include references to the textbook and at least one additional source. Use APA formatting when citing your sources, parenthetically and at the end of your essay. Please do not copy and paste from sources into these essay posts at all. Only your own words should be present (no quotations of any size). Please use full sentences in paragraph form at all times; bulleted or numbered lists are not appropriate for an APA essay.