Building Memory Skills

Wayne Davis

Spring 2001

T Th 11-12-30

This 16 hour course in 12 sessions is designed to provide students with a beginning level study of basic memory techniques applicable to improving success in college, preparing for tests, name memory, concentration, and memory for general information used in daily living.

Textbooks:
Building Memory Skills Workbook, Davis
The Memory Book, Lorayne

Grading:
Credit/No Credit only
Students must earn a minimum of 70 total points to earn the credit grade

How to earn points:
Final: 30 points
2 quizzes: @ 10 points each
Library research notes: 5 points each. 40 possible research assignments
Homework assignments @ 5 points each. 10 possible homework assignments
Total possible points: 300

Sessions:

Learning the skills

1. Developing intensity and desire
2. Exercising the imagination
3. Improving concentration
4. Creating positive associations
5. Thinking in pictures and mentally visualizing
6. Making good concrete connections
7. Organizing information
8. Thinking about words

1. Remembering names
2. Using a Peg system
3. How to remember numbers
4. Review and retain: the final examination