A Method to Memory
The other night I was sitting at home in my room watching the Rockets
game, and my phone begins to ring. I answer "Hello", and I hear this frantic
voice that I recognize as my friend Mandy's. Mandy is a nervous wreck, she has
a big bio-chem test in the morning and can't seem to remember a thing. I ask
her what kind of information she has, and she tells me she has notes and her
book. Now being the nice guy I am, and having just completed learning about
memory in my Intro to Psych class, I turned off the T.V. and told her I'd help
her learn to memorize things.
The first thing I told her about was a method called rehearsal. I
explained that rehearsal involved repeating the information time after time to
keep it from fading from her short term memory, or STM. She was a bit confused
so I simplified it for her. I reminded her of the other night when she was
looking for the number to Pizza Hut in the phone book, and when she found it she
started repeating over......
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