A Method To Memory

A Method to Memory


     The other night I was sitting at home in my room watching the Rockets

game, and my phone begins to ring.  I answer "Hello", and I hear this frantic

voice that I recognize as my friend Mandy's.  Mandy is a nervous wreck, she has

a big bio-chem test in the morning and can't seem to remember a thing.  I ask

her what kind of information she has, and she tells me she has notes and her

book.  Now being the nice guy I am, and having just completed learning about

memory in my Intro to Psych class, I turned off the T.V. and told her I'd help

her learn to memorize things.

     The first thing I told her about was a method called rehearsal.  I

explained that rehearsal involved repeating the information time after time to

keep it from fading from her short term memory, or STM.  She was a bit confused

so I simplified it for her.  I reminded her of the other night when she was

looking for the number to Pizza Hut in the phone book, and when she found it she

started repeating over and over until she got to the phone and could dial it.

She was astounded that she was doing this a
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