1. Memory can be affected by how much you concentrate, how much you rehearse, your level of motivation, physical state and biological condition. Also affected by the context in which you learn something and the context in which it is recalled. Interference from other experiences can impact memory.
2. Discovering meaning, order, and organization are some of the most powerful strategies of the mind.
3. Long-term memory is unlimited. In theory, any experiences stored in long-term memory are available for recall. Long-term memory is passive, not active.
4. Short-term memory is the second memory system, characterized by active memories - all information currently in use.
5. Short term memory has two limitations. It can only hold a small amount of information (5 - 9 items), and the time the memory is held is short (30 seconds). When our attention is diverted somewhere else, new information replaces the old.
6. "Chunking" - grouping items by pattern or familiarity - enables us to hold onto items longer.
7. New material is learned by relating it to old material.
8. Peg word pneumonics - associating a list of peg words with the new items to remember: one-bun, two-show, three-tree, four-door, five-hive.
9. "Who and what you remember is determined by who you are and what you already know."
10. Remembering something results in a physical change in the brain (structure and functioning).
11. Procedural and declarative (what you know) memories are different sets of connections. Episodic memory (diary of personal experiences) is another set of engrams (sp?)
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