The Memory Key: Unlock the Secrets to Remembering

The Memory Key website is named after my book The Memory Key Following extensive research into the tiny (but growing!) academic sub-niche of practical memory applications, and the popular literature on memory improvement, it became apparent to me that: the same old advice was repeated ad nauseum few popular writers had taken on board the growing body of modern practical research few people actually came out of memory programs with new memory habits that would enable them to achieve long-lasting memory improvement that research indicated this failure was partly due to the failure of such programs to teach how and why such memory strategies worked, and when (and when not) they would be effective. Accordingly, I embarked on trawling the literature for useful advice, and working out just what people needed to know about how memory works in order to use effective strategies successfully. The difficulty in explaining how memory works in enough detail to provide the necessary understanding, without overwhelming the reader in complexity, showed me why no one had undertaken this before! One of the major new understandings I myself came away with after all my reading and writing and thinking, was that we have an unreasonable expectation of our memory. It's not enough for us that we can remember, and access quickly, a truly astonishing amount of detail, including complex images seen only briefly, words overheard only in passing ... No, we pay no attention to that. What we notice are our failures. Yet our failures are nothing compared to the amount of information we are deluged in daily. Improving your memory involves more than mastering memory strategies. It also involves selecting the information you wish to remember .

Self-Help

Fiona McPherson

Memory Improvement

Barnes&Noble

Being a successful student is far more about being a smart user of effective strategies than about being ‘smart’. In fact it is possible to predict how well a student will do simply on the basis of their use of study strategies. This workbook (one of a series on study skills) looks at the most important group of study strategies — taking notes. Notetaking encompasses many strategies, not simply the obvious ones such as how to format your notes, use headings and highlighting, how to summarize, how to review your notes, but also the more complex ones of how to evaluate text to work out which strategy is appropriate, and how to ask the right questions. The book is for college students who are serious about their learning, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students. As always with the Mempowered books, this thorough (and fully referenced) workbook doesn’t re-hash the same tired advice that’s been peddled for so long, but is based on the last decades’ work of cognitive and educational researchers. Today we know a lot more detail about the ways in which text and images can be used to optimize learning, and this book aims to teach you how to use this information to become a better learner. PLEASE NOTE THAT A REVISED EDITION IS NOW AVAILABLE. This revised edition comes in a new (slightly smaller) size, with improved images, some new examples, and an extended chapter on lecture note-taking.

Effective notetaking

Wayz Press

Perfect Memory Training is essential reading for anyone who wants to strengthen their powers of recall. Written by Dr Fiona McPherson, a psychologist with years of experience in the field, it explains how memories are created and stored, sets out a range of techniques to help you improve these processes, and provides exercises to help you track your progress. Whether you want to get better at remembering names, faces, lists or pieces of general knowledge, Perfect Memory Training has everything you need to boost your mental ability.The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

Perfect Memory Training

Random House Books

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Books by Fiona McPherson

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The Memory Key: Unlock the Secrets to Remembering

Effective notetaking

Perfect Memory Training