That's just rote rehearsal, there are a lot better ways to memorize things.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Like?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Chunking (ex: memorize the letter sequence TJYFAVMCFKIB by chunking it into familar acronyms TV FBI JFK YMCA), knowing the meaning/understand it instead of just memorizing random facts keeps it in your memory longer, elaborative rehearsal, mnemonics, and schemata (a variation of elaborative rehearsal).

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh yeah, that's a good one. I feel like at the end of it all you would still need some form of repetition with that. Then again it would depend on the person like I was going to say writing stuff down, as a better way to rememet stuff. Some people only need to write it down once, and it'd branded into their memory, while other would need to write it repeatedly to remember it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It depends on the person, what they're memorizing, and how much needs to be memorized. If you needed to memorize something and made a story with visual images that was only a paragraph long, you wouldn't need to repeat it to yourself 30 times for it to stick like you would if you hadn't made up a story to go with it. The more there is the more you need to repeat it to yourself, and repeating it to yourself is generally essential in keeping most things in your memory, but rote rehearsal (just repeating it over and over), while effective for keeping something in your memory for a short period of time (ex: when you're on the phone getting a different phone number and you don't have a pen and you just keep repeating the number in your head until you hang up and dial), by its self is not very efficient for remembering things.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't care what anyone says, if you repeat something enough times, you WILL memorize it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

True, but if you want it to //stay// in your memory, you need to use suggestions like colebowl said. I have all of the methods above and some other ones as well. I took a course in college that challenged us to "think about our thinking", or "metacognition". It was crazy that all the things I did (making mnemonic devices and making up songs) were all things that aided in remembering things. And I thought I just had a good memory :P Also, other good methods that I used: --Making analogies and comparisons --Rephrasing knowledge into my own terms --Trying to teach it/explain it to someone else --Probably my most favourite: reading something, taking a five minute nap, waking up and thinking about what I read before reading again.

by Anonymous 11 years ago