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Boost memory for better performance

Boosting your child’s memory is important. If you want your child to be able to achieve academic success and be able to reach his goals in life, you have to make sure your child has enough access to the right kind of resources. There are a number of memory boosting techniques in the market. No matter how many hours you may spend studying, performance is based ultimately on how much you can actually recall. You know your child stayed up all night or spent hours preparing for his English exam. Somehow the next day he seems to have answered a vast majority of the questions wrongly. It is important to understand that when you are cramming a lot of information at one go, you are not registering the content in your long term memory. You are just trying to read … Continue reading

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Improve memory skills for better results

For a computer or some mechanical devices we could easily upgrade and improve our memory without any difficulty whatsoever. When it comes to a person though, the process is very different. You can’t just add on a memory chip and expand your memory. When you find it difficult to remember details or facts about things it is because you weren’t paying enough attention. Concentration and memory are extremely co-related. Paying attention is important to be able to perform well in a class. When you are paying attention it takes effort and it involves learning. Thus you can save yourself the extra hours back at home trying to learn what was taught that day. If you want to remember well, then ask questions. As you ask questions you are making your brain analyze and question the situation and events. The more … Continue reading

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Working memory aids for children

Working memory refers to being able to store information and processing it for immediate use. Our working memory abilities will depend on how we use our mind. Just like the muscles of our body will grow weak and flabby due to lack of exercises the ‘muscles of our mind’ also requires ample exercise and training. Often when children do not have adequate working memory they struggle with learning and academic performance. However with the right techniques in place, you can overcome many of the troubles that are encountered. Verbal rehearsal for working memory When you are unable to remember a long list of grocery items or wish to memorize long sequences of numbers, you need to consider strategies such as chunking or linking to remember better. Break up a large sequence such 111347564879 into 111-347-648-79. This is chunking. For a … Continue reading

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