Unit 5: Memory Principles and Techniques
Learning Objectives
After you have completed this unit you should be able to:
- Explain how each part of the memory works (sensory, working, and long-term)
- Describe several mnemonic, or memory, techniques
- Discuss memory regarding the older learner: what changes and what stays the same
- Describe short-term memory
- Describe long-term memory
- Explain how to transfer information from the short-term memory to the long-term memory
- Discuss effective strategies for memorizing information
- Explain strategies for how to concentrate
- Describe how the place you choose to study effects efficiency
- Describe how the time you choose to study effects efficiency
- Discuss internal and external distractions
- Explain how to recognize and minimize distractions
Licenses and Attributions:
CC licensed content, previously shared:
Nissila, Phyllis. How to Learn Like a Pro! Open Oregon Educational Resources, 2016. Located at: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/collegereading/part/unit-5/ License: CC-BY: Attribution.
Content previously copyrighted, published in Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies (by Dave Dillon), now licensed as CC BY Attribution.
