Do you have problems remembering birthdays and anniversaries, appointments and errands? Do you sometimes find yourself in a room, and wonder why you're there? Do you end up doing things twice because you've forgotten you've already done them? Of all the memory failures that plague us, forgetting our intentions -- birthdays, appointments, errands we mean to do -- is the greatest, closely followed by those moments of absentmindedness when we lose track of what we're doing. The special problem of these common memory failures is that they are failures that are often very obvious to others. More than any other memory failure, forgetting the future makes others feel hurt and annoyed, causing us regret and embarrassment. And absentmindedness can not simply be irritating, but dangerous. Many people think that these sorts of problems are inevitable -- a natural consequence of getting older, or going through menopause, or because of some 'natural' personality flaw. But remembering future events, and remembering what you're doing or have just done, are memory tasks that, like any other memory task, are subject to your skills. Skills can be learned. To learn or improve a skill, you need to know effective strategies and how to practice them. This book helps you understand these memory and attention failures, and shows you how to overcome them. As always with the Mempowered books, this fully referenced book, based on the work of cognitive researchers, helps you permanently improve your memory skills by explaining what you need to know to use these strategies effectively and appropriately.

Planning to Remember: How to remember what you're doing and what you plan to do

Self-Help

McPherson, Fiona

Memory Improvement

Wayz Press

A successful student uses effective strategies 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. Mnemonics is one class of study strategy that is of proven effectiveness, but (like only too many effective strategies!) is used far too little. Despite many studies showing the effectiveness of mnemonic strategies, they remain the least frequently used formal memory aid used by students. Perhaps the main reason for this is that their effectiveness is not intuitively obvious -- truly, no one really believes that these 'tricks' can so remarkably improve memory until they try them for themselves. But while mnemonics do not help you understand your material, they do help you remember those many details you need to achieve expertise in a topic -- details such as the names of things, technical words, lists of principles. Moreover, mnemonics can help you remember tags or labels that allow you to access clusters of meaningful information -- for example, headings of a speech or main points for exam essays. For both these reasons, mnemonics are a valuable assistance to building up expertise in a subject, as well as in helping you 'cram' for an exam. This concise book covers acronyms &amp; acrostics rhythm &amp; rhyme keyword strategies (including the face-name association method) the story method the loci or journey method the pegword method the link method coding mnemonics While you can find basic information on these various mnemonic strategies in many books and websites, Mnemonics for Study goes far beyond the same tired descriptions, using the latest research to explain exactly how these strategies work and are best used. The hardest part of permanently improving your memory is changing your habits and becoming an effective user of effective strategies. The best way to do this, research has shown, is through understanding how different strategies work, and when and how to use them. Through examples and exercises, that is what this book aims to teach you.

Mnemonics for Study

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Do you have problems remembering birthdays and anniversaries, appointments and errands?Do you sometimes find yourself in a room, and wonder why you're there?Do you end up doing things twice because you've forgotten you've already done them?Of all the memory failures that plague us, forgetting our intentions -- birthdays, appointments, errands we mean to do -- is the greatest, closely followed by those moments of absentmindedness when we lose track of what we're doing.The special problem of these common memory failures is that they are failures that are often very obvious to others. More than any other memory failure, forgetting the future makes others feel hurt and annoyed, causing us regret and embarrassment. And absentmindedness can not simply be irritating, but dangerous.Many people think that these sorts of problems are inevitable -- a natural consequence of getting older, or going through menopause, or because of some 'natural' personality flaw. But remembering future events, and remembering what you're doing or have just done, are memory tasks that, like any other memory task, are subject to your skills. Skills can be learned.To learn or improve a skill, you need to know effective strategies and how to practice them. This book helps you understand these memory and attention failures, and shows you how to overcome them.As always with the Mempowered books, this fully referenced book, based on the work of cognitive researchers, helps you permanently improve your memory skills by explaining what you need to know to use these strategies effectively and appropriately.

Planning to remember: How to remember what you're doing and what you plan to do

The Memory Key: Unlock the Secrets to Remembering

Most memory improvement courses do not result in lasting change. They may succeed in teaching effective strategies, but they too often fail to explain when and when not to use these strategies. 
The Memory Key is different. This practical, easy-to-use handbook goes beyond mere mnemonics and study skills to shed light on how memory works, and what you need to know and do to achieve genuine memory improvement. 
Author Fiona McPherson focuses on the three principal requirements of memory improvement: 
* Understanding how your memory works. * Knowing a whole range of techniques and being able to use them effectively. * Judging how well you have learned and how likely you are to remember easily and accurately. 
The Memory Key is a useful and valuable tool for people of all ages across many fields-from students and business managers dealing with information overload to anyone who fears memory deterioration.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Career Pr Inc

Whether it’s names, faces, lists or pieces of general knowledge, Perfect Memory Training, written by a psychologist with years of experience in the field, is essential reading for anyone wishing to strengthen their powers of recall.

Perfect Memory Training: All you need to get it right every time

Random House Books

The Memory Key: Understand and Improve Your Memory

Tandem P.,New Zealand

Working 'hard' is not enough. To be an effective student, you need to work 'smart'.This book is for students who are serious about being successful in study, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students learn. For being a successful student is far more about being a smart user of effective strategies than about being 'smart'.In Effective Notetaking and Mnemonics for Study, Dr McPherson showed readers many strategies for improving understanding and memory. But these on their own can only take you so far, if you don't know how to cement that information into your brain for the long term. In this new book, Dr McPherson explains the 10 principles of effective practice and revision.Few students know how to revise effectively, which is why they waste so much time going over and over material, as they try to hammer it into their heads. But you don't need to spend all that time, and you don't need to endure such boredom. What you need to do is understand how to review your learning in the most effective way. Using examples from science, math, history, foreign languages, and skill learning, that is what this book aims to teach you.This book will tell you  what you should practice or revise how you should practice how often you should practice how far apart you should schedule your sessions different strategies you can use in your practice how skill learning differs from 'fact' learning  and more. As always with the Mempowered books, this book uses the latest cognitive and educational research to show you what to do to maximize your learning.

How to Learn: The 10 principles of effective revision & practice (Study Skills)

Science for Kids

Being smart helps. Working hard helps more. But working effectively helps most of all.There's a great deal that research can now tell us about how to study effectively. For 20 years, I've been reporting on research into memory and learning, and explaining how these findings can be translated into practical advice. In earlier books, I have presented a lot of detail on strategies in specific areas: note-taking, mnemonics, practice and revision. In this guide, I attempt to provide an overview of how to approach your learning, and the strategies you should consider using.The book covers: <ul> <li>preparing for learning</li> <li>approaching a text</li> <li>reading</li> <li>taking notes</li> <li>building understanding</li> <li>navigating non-linear environments</li> <li>dealing with lectures</li> <li>memorizing</li> <li>revising</li> <li>building expertise in skills</li> <li>how specific subjects differ in their needs & demands.</li> </ul> The book can be used as an adjunct and quick reference for those who have the more in-depth workbooks, or as a simplified guide for those who want the bottom-line without the detail. This is not a book for students who want a magic bullet, who want a five-minute 'answer' to effortless study But for students who want to know that their time and effort are being used wisely, that their diligence will be rewarded with better marks and more long-lasting learning, this guide may be the answer they've long been looking for.

Successful Learning Simplified: A Visual Guide (Study Skills)

You can predict how well a student will do simply on the basis of their use of effective study strategies. Effective notetaking is for college students who are serious about being successful in study, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students learn. Being a successful student is far more about being a smart user of effective strategies than about being 'smart'. Research has shown it is possible to predict how well a student will do simply on the basis of their use of study strategies. This workbook looks at the most important group of study skills - how to take notes (with advice on how to read a textbook and how to prepare for a lecture). You'll be shown how to: - format your notes - use headings and highlighting - write different types of text summaries and pictorial ones, including concept maps and mind maps (you'll find out the difference, and the pros and cons of each) - ask the right questions - make the right connections - review your notes - evaluate text to work out which strategy is appropriate. There's advice on individual differences and learning styles, and on how to choose the strategies that are right for both you and the situation. Using effective notetaking strategies will help you remember what you read. It will help you understand more, and set you on the road to becoming an expert (or at least getting good grades!). Successful studying isn't about hours put in, it's about spending your time wisely. You want to study smarter not harder. 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. Rather, Effective notetaking builds on the latest cognitive and educational research to help you study for success. This 3rd edition has advance organizers and multi-choice review questions for each chapter, plus some additional material on multimedia learning, and taking notes in lectures.

Effective Notetaking (Study Skills)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

This highly visual workbook, in full color, takes you, step by step, through the process of learning the Russian alphabet. It uses several strategies to help learners achieve mastery quickly and thoroughly. These strategies include:
<ul>
<li>grouping</li>
<li>visual mnemonics</li>
<li>test questions to help you practice</li>
<li>vocabulary lists for further practice.</li>
</ul>
These vocabulary lists appear for each group of letters, so you can practice on words that only use the letters you have learned. To make them easier to read (and also, beneficially, remember), the words are mostly cognate with English words. Thus you can not only practice your letters, but also pick up some few hundreds of words as well. Where the meaning of the words is less obvious, mnemonic keywords are provided.
The workbook includes:
<ul>
<li>instruction on learning the individual letters</li>
<li>visual and story mnemonics for learning the order of the alphabet</li>
<li>targeted vocabulary lists</li>
<li>full glossary with word meanings and mnemonics where appropriate.</li>
</ul>

Easy Russian Alphabet: A Visual Workbook

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