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Study Tips for Improving Long Term Retention & Recall (What Study…
Study Tips for Improving Long Term Retention & Recall
Building Memory
Take Home Stages
Incorporate “retrieval practice” into your study plan
Deliberately link new information to existing knowledge
Get 7-8 hours of quality sleep on a regular basis
Pay attention to the learning task at hand and avoid distractions
Adopt a deep approach to learning
How Are Long Term Memories Stored?
Stimuli you attend to enter short term memory. Depending on how you approach this, some short term memories will enter into long term memories
In the absence of continuous rehearsal(repetition), anything recalled after 1 minute becomes long term memory
All perceived stimuli enter your memory storage system as “sensory memories.”
The brain has a complicated system for creating and storing long-term memories
Long term memories are stored in tandem with visual and auditory memories, and can thus be linked
How are Long Term Memories Retrieved?
Based on the strength of the neural connection
needs multiple relevant retrieval cues, such as sight, color, smell, and other sensory cues
recognition and recall
re-consolidation to strengthen or alter a memory
Memory Stages & Processes
Stage 1: Sensory Memory
A buffer that briefly and accurately holds all sensory stimuli(taste, touch, sound) for 1 minute
Process: Sensory Encoding
Crucial first step in memory creation
Attention is essential, ignored info vanishes
Not all information makes it into short term memory
Stage 2: Short Term Memory
Holds 5-7 items for less than a minute, chunking increasing info held here, and so does rehearsal. Bad STM proven to be limiting factor in learning
Process: Consolidation
Deep sleep essential to create LTMs
Not all STM become retrievable LTMs
Stablizies conversion from STM to LTM
New LTMs linked to existing ones to form new neural synapses
Stage 3: Long Term Memory
Permanent
Distributed throughout the brain
Memory decay diminishes the ability to retrieve the memory at a later time.
Accessing the LTMs strengthens the neural networks
What Study Behaviors Create "Deep Learning"?
Dual Coding
Translate a written passage into a drawing or diagram
Use your own words to describe a picture/figure/diagram
State and Context-dependent memory(Study in an environment similar to the testing environment)
Generation Effect
Create concept maps
Write your own study questions (and use them to quiz yourself).
Use your whole brain, use mnemonic tools to help create associations
Create your own summaries, study guides, tables, flow charts, diagrams, etc.
Sleep effect(review pertinent information before going to sleep)
Elaborative Rehearsal
Use own words to rephrase or recall definition
Think of familiar examples—things that you can relate to
Relate new information to knowledge from other courses or life experiences
Relate theory to everyday practice
How does it relate to the big picture? Overall significance to you
Task Focus(Eliminate distractions and don't multitask)
Retrieval practice
Take a break from reading or pause a lecture to actively recall what’s just been covered
Explain what you’ve been learning to someone else
Instead of taking notes, in the same amount of time, write your own study questions and use them to test yourself
Draw and label diagrams from memory, make copies of blank tables and fill in from memory
Distributed Effort(Spreading study over several days instead of cramming)