So, it's the second day of school, and I realized that I am possibly going to DIE (just kidding) from all the memorizing I have to do. Does anyone have a good way of memorizing things?
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Memory Tricks
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You associate what you're trying to remember with something else, a word you know well.
When I was taking Anthropology, I'd remember the differeent terms by associating them with something else. Australopithecus = Australia. Homonid = Homosexual. Gigantopithecus = Gigantic.
So I just tried to find words that were similar. In order to remember a ton of information about each term, I'd write the word on a flash card. On the back I'd fill it with small writing with all the information on it. Then I'd quiz myself, like the old Johnny Carson skits, I'd hold the card up to my forehead and try to remember all the information on the back of the card, without flipping it over. It took a few times but I eventually remembered most of what I was studying (I'm horrible in school) and got a B+ in the class.
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I like the "talking it out" part. That makes a lot of sense.
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One thing that is very effective is to teach it to someone else.Sometimes you have to go over the most difficult stuff again and again. But, as Helms says, the more parts of the brain it goes through the better.
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I agree with everyone else. If you talk, write, and read it, you'll have a better percentage of remembering it. I remember my summer school math teacher, depsite how hypocritical he was to be "cool", he told us that doing something, or actually writing and saying something out will have a better effect on your memory and give you a better chance of rememebring in and bringing it from your recollection. I think Pete's idea is excellent as well - if you can teach it to someone else, you are more likely to understand it better yourself.Some cheap ways of making your memory better are... eating peanuts. I recently learned from my sister that peanuts help your memory, but it's just one of those things you can't really trust, so, even if you do eat peanuts, I wouldn't rely on it being the sole thing that would help your memory throughout the school year. But hey - you'll have a hell of protein :D. Or whatever peanuts give you...
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To add to that, eating a banana helps with memory right before a test. Potassium seems to be the cause.
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Yeah, my problem is just remembering parts of the body... For anatomy. What's been working pretty well is me telling someone else their body parts (this is your left iliac blah blah blah). Then it's usually stuck in my head.