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Using pictures to improve your memory
From the course: Learning Study Skills
Using pictures to improve your memory
- Have you ever heard the phrase a picture is worth a thousand words? In this video we'll introduce the power of pictures and how they can affect your memory. So let's discuss why visual information, like pictures, are so easy to remember. Have you ever forgotten someone's name? We all have. But what if you ran into that person later in the week or later in the month, you'd probably remember their face, right? You might forget their name, but you very easily remember their face. Why is that? It's because the human brain remembers visual information much better than abstract information. A face is very visual, you can picture it in your mind, which makes it easy to remember. A first name is more abstract and harder to remember unless we include some sort of repetition or association with it. Now this is very important to realize, that you're very good at remembering visual information because we can leverage this idea to improve our memory. Let's go over an example, here's a 14 letter…
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Understanding how your memory works1m 33s
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Remembering better using the multiple reading process1m 57s
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Memorizing new vocabulary using the similar sound technique4m 23s
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Using mnemonic devices3m 24s
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Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration3m 7s
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Using pictures to improve your memory3m 40s
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The link system3m 58s
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Memory palaces and the method of loci4m 6s
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Numeric peg system: Linking numbers to pictures3m 22s
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Numeric peg system: Memorizing a 10-item list9m 33s
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Numeric peg system: Memorizing more than 10 items2m 45s
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Remembering important dates4m 37s
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Memorizing formulas and equations5m 8s
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Challenge 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary53s
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Solution 1: Use the similar sound technique with foreign vocabulary2m 30s
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Challenge 2: Create a memory palace48s
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Solution 2: Create a memory palace1m 20s
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