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How to Improve Memory and Recall Lists

Suppose you need to shop for groceries and you need the following food: Eggs Bread Bacon Cheese Milk How can you remember this list without writing it down in a piece of paper? For short lists of different objects, the most effective method of recalling objects is to associate the words and combine them to create a chain such as: Eggs-Bread-Bacon-Cheese-Milk Then, visualize some funny story in your mind so that the items on the list will be linked together. As an example, picture yourself entering the […]

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How to Improve Memory and Ace an Exam

Using peg words in helping us to remember needed information is a good method. However, one thing that we must be careful when we use this method is confusion. When we use the same words in memorizing things, there is a large possibility of confusion. For instance, if you will memorize a roster of countries and their currencies on peg words, then you memorize the US states on the same peg, you might have the chance of recalling that Florida is the Capital of Mongolia. Avoiding confusion […]

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