Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It
Kenneth Higbee, Ph.D.
http://amazon.com/Higbee-Memory/dp/1569246297
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: What Can You Expect From This Book? xi
- Why Did I Write It?
- Why Should You Read It?
- What Will You Find in It?
1. What Can You Expect From Your Memory? Ten Myths 1 (15)
- Memory Is a Thing
- There Is a Secret to a Good Memory
- There Is an Easy Way to Memorize
- Some People Are Stuck with Bad Memories
- Some People Are Blessed with Photographic Memories
- Some People Are Too Old/Young to Improve Their Memories
- Memory, Like a Muscle, Benefits from Exercise
- A Trained Memory Never Forgets
- Remembering Too Much Can Clutter Your Mind
- People Only Use 10 Percent of Their Mental Potential
2. Meet Your Memory: What Is It? 16 (16)
- What Are the Stages and Processes of Memory?
- What Is Short-term Memory?
- What Is Long-term Memory?
- What Are the Measures of Memory?
- What Is the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon?
3. Meet Your Memory: How Does It Work? 32 (14)
- How and Why Do We Forget?
- How Fast Do We Forget?
- How Do We Remember Pictures Versus Words?
- How Do Exceptional Memories Work?
- How Well Does Sleep Leaming Work?
4. How To Remember Almost Anything: Basic Principles 46 (16)
- Meaningfulness: “That Doesn’t Make Sense
- Organization: “Get It All Together”
- Association: “That Reminds Me”
- Visualization: “I Can See It All Now”
- Attention: “I Don’t Get It”
5. How To Remember Almost Anything Else: More Basic Principles 62 (12)
- Repetition: “What Was That Again?”
- Relaxation: “Take It Easy”
- Context: “Where Am I?”
- Interest: “What’s It to Ya?”
- Feedback: “How Are You Doing?”
6. Strategies For Effective Learning: Study Skills 74 (19)
- Reduce Interference
- Space It Out
- Break It up?
- Recite It
- Use a Study System
- How Well Do the Principles and Strategies Work?
7. Working Miracles With Your Memory: An Introduction To Mnemonics 93 (20)
- What Are Mnemonics?
- First Letters and Keywords
- Basic Principles of Mnemonics
- How to Make Effective Visual Associations
- More on Effective Mnemonics
8. The Legitimacy Of Mnemonics: Limitations And Pseudo-Limitations 113 (18)
- Some Limitations of Mnemonics
- Some Pseudo-Limitations of Mnemonics
9. Mental Filing Systems: Link And Story Mnemonics 131 (13)
- Your Mental Filing System
- What Is the Link System?
- What Is the Story System?
- How Well Do the Link and Story Systems Work?
- How Can You Use the Link and Story Systems?
10. Mental Filing Systems: Loci Mnemonic 144 (13)
- What Is the Loci System?
- How Well Does the Loci System Work?
- How Can You Use the Loci System?
11. Mental Filing Systems: Peg Mnemonic 157 (15)
- What Is the Peg System?
- How Well Does the Peg System Work?
- How Can You Use the Peg System?
12. Mental Filing Systems: Phonetic Mnemonic 172 (16)
- What Is the Phonetic System?
- How Well Does the Phonetic System Work?
- How Can You Use the Phonetic System?
13. Using Mnemonics: Remembering People’s Names And Faces 188 (15)
- How Do We Remember Names and Faces?
- A System for Remembering Names and Faces
- How Well Does the System Work?
14. Using Mnemonics: Absentmindedness And Education 203 (16)
- Absentmindedness
- Prospective Remembering
- Retrospective Remembering
- Mnemonics in Education
- Memory in Education
Appendix: Keywords For The Phonetic System 219 (4)
Chapter Notes 223 (32)
Index 255