Your Memory: How it Works and How to Improve it

✍ Scribed by Kenneth L. Higbee

• Publisher: Judy Piatkus Publishers Ltd.
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Do you want to stop forgetting appointments, birthdays, and other important dates? Work more efficiently at your job? Study less and get better grades? Remember the names and faces of people you meet? The good news is that it's all possible. Your Memory will help to expand your memory abilities beyond what you thought possible. Dr. Higbee reveals how simple techniques, like the Link, Loci, Peg, and Phonetic systems, can be incorporated into your everyday life and how you can also use these techniques to learn foreign languages faster than you thought possible, remember details you would have otherwise forgotten, and overcome general absentmindedness. Higbee also includes sections on aging and memory and the latest information on the use of mnemonics.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
1. What can you expect from your Memory? Ten Myths
2. Meet your Memory: What is it?
3. Meet your Memory: How does it work?
4. How to remember almost anything: Basic Principles
5. How to remember almost anything else: More Basic Principles
6. Strategies for effective Learning: Study Skills
7. Working Miracles with your Memory: An Introduction to Mnemonics
8. The Legitimacy of Mnemonics: Limitations and Pseudo-Limitations
9. Mental Filing Systems: Link and Story Mnemonics
10. Mental Filing Systems: Loci Mnemonic
11. Mental Filing Systems:Peg Mnemonic
12. Mental Filing Systems: Phonetic Mnemonic
13. Using Mnemonics: Remembering People's Names and Faces
14. Using Mnemonics: Absent-mindedness and Education
Appendix: Keywords for the Phonetic System
Chapter Notes
Index

✦ Subjects

absent-mindedness;age;association;attention;concentration;efficiency;eidetic memory;exaggeration;faces;interference;loci method;keywords;link;meaningfulness;memorable;memorisation;mental;phonetic mnemonics;names;peg system;photographic;recall;recitation;remember;repetition;retention;review;rote learning;short-term;study;training;visualization;vocabulary;Wechsler