Study and memorize
Sometimes we say we have forgotten when perhaps we have not implemented something or we've never paid attention conscious enough.
In the literature the study of memory there are several mnemonics:
1. simple repetition, but it does not bring satisfaction and if it is superficial, the object is soon forgotten. In addition, if something is repeated mechanically and does not concern us will be difficult to remember. And 'the case of an advertisement that made BBC radio to communicate to the listeners of the new radio frequencies. The mere repetition of commercials on the radio did not guarantee learning. Not just how many times a person hears a message, if not internally processes will go unnoticed. After two months in a radio ad message was so repetitive and boring to be ignored automatically.
2. repetition and organization for chunks. Miller (1956) coined the term chunking to indicate that the material to remember could be organized into larger units equipped with meaning. He had identified the "magical number seven + or - 2" the amount of information that could be held in STM (short-term memory). Miller noted that this number was subjective and depended on the storage object, refers to the number grouped units (chunks). Eg if I have to memorize the phone number 9 3 1 1 1 2 8 9 6, keeping store at repeating units for each digit would make the storage more complicated than that if raggruppassi figures in larger chunks: 931 11 28 96.
3. by association with things already known to us and make information easier to believe. For example, in learning the English word for grandparents who are grandparents, I can associate the image of a pair of giant pears (large pears) and will be easier to remember as we say in English grandparents (see Matthew Salvo , Learn English in a months).
4. for mediation, if the information is difficult to store, between what is easier to understand and information. For example, the cartoon "how we are" explaining the workings of the human body made the learning of information itself potentially difficult to learn, easy and fun thanks to the mediation of the presentation and the characters who speak and interpret the various parts and functions in the human body.
5. for organizing information: it can either be suggested by what you have to remember or subjectively organized. See the method of loci for which the organization of space known as it were our home, we attribute the information to each room and create a mind map with its own organization.
6. imaging: the use of images is very powerful to remember and make connections between new information and have already learned, or between 2 or more new information to remember. Colored images, moving, static, bizarre help better memorize. Richardson, 1980: there is evidence that everyone can use mental imagery. The ability to use mental images varies from individual to individual but the potential is universal. Even people blind from birth can use mental imagery.
See also entries in memory and forgetfulness PQ4R.







