How to Improve your Memory for Study, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (November 2, 2012) © 2013

  • Jonathan Hancock

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Details

  • A print text
  • Free shipping
  • Also available for purchase as an ebook from all major ebook resellers, including InformIT.com

Title overview

This book will show you how to use memory to revolutionise the way you study. It combines the latest research about how the memory works with practical strategies for putting it to use in every aspect of study.

How To Improve Your Memory explores everything we know about the thinking and learning skills required to succeed. It’s about developing a smart and efficient approach, using the brain at its best, and taking the stress and strain out of study in all its forms.

This text  is designed to interest, reassure, inspire, train – and, ultimately, to make studying in all its forms more enjoyable and more successful.

Table of contents

Foreword

 

Preface

 

Acknowledgements

 

How to use this book

 

Your study brain

1 What is memory?

2 How memories are made

3 Switch on your memory

4 The right frame of mind

 

Where study starts

5 Warming up

6 Strategies for success

 

Learn to remember

7 Making memories

8 Telling stories

9 Memory journeys

 

Take it all in

10 Re-learning to read

11 Listen and learn

 

Right shape, right space

12 Getting physical

13 Memory zones

 

Total recall

14 Student survival

15 Memory for exams

 

Further reading

 

 

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