Perfect Memory Training by Fiona McPherson

Author:Fiona McPherson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781409061069
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-02-23T18:47:10+00:00

8 Strategies to improve your learning

I said at the beginning of this book that memory is not a single thing, and I hope you can now see how true that is. With different memory processes going on for your knowledge of facts and words, your knowledge of people, of the events and experiences that make up your life, of the physical and mental skills you can do, and of the tasks you plan to do, it’s clear that the strategies you need for dealing with one type of information won’t do for another. One strategy, however good, isn’t going to cut it. You need a whole toolbox. Most importantly, you need to know which tool to use.

Our aim, then, is to match memory strategies with the appropriate memory tasks. But there are a great many memory strategies, ranging from the very specific (Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit, for learning the notes on the lines of the treble clef ) to the very general (MONITORING your learning). To help us in our task of matching the right strategy to the specific task, it helps to be able to reduce the number of strategies we need to consider. We need a classification system.

In general, we can divide memory strategies into two broad categories: information manipulation strategies, and SUPPORT STRATEGIES. The more specific strategies are those that manipulate the information you wish to remember (such as the Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit mnemonic), while support strategies are more general strategies that help you learn more effectively (such as monitoring your learning).

Information manipulation strategies can be further subdivided between strategies for information that needs to be memorised verbatim and those for information that needs to be understood and remembered for meaning. As discussed in the first part, rote memorisation and ‘true’ learning are quite different goals that require very different strategies. In this chapter we will look at information-manipulation strategies for meaningful information.

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