How To REMEMBER FOR TESTS | LBCC Study Skills

I'm gonna go ahead and start today is the first of three workshops in a row about the subject of memory and i don't expect you to actually answer me on this on this just want you to think about it but if i ask you how how's your memory how do you remember things do you remember well or not a lot of people tell me terrible memory i can't remember anything you know the answer to that question is everybody in here has a fantastic memory even if you think you don't it's just that some people don't know how to actually apply it to school related things i talk to people all the time who say they can't remember anything so they read their book but i have no idea i can't remember and then i ask them what their favorite hobby is in a lot of people say music love music and so i have them tell me their favorite artist they tell me and i say do you remember the lyrics to their songs every one of them they say and they're able to give me this long list of lyrics that they have memorized and then when they're done i say that's really good you have a great memory i said no it's terrible i said that you remember all that they say that's different okay so we gotta figure out how to get that knowledge of that memory that you have for other things applied to school and that's what i'm gonna teach you so today's workshop is called how to remember for tests next week is memory tricks and the other one after that is more memory tricks so it's kind of a three part series if you're only here for this one you'll get some things that i hope are helpful if you're here for all three of course which i would love then you'll get a whole bunch of teaching about memory and you'll find out that your memory can work better than you think it can okay so uh...to start today what we're gonna do is i'm going to test your memory 'cause that's what this is all about uh... memory so what i'd like everybody to do is to make sure that you have some paper in front of you which i think everybody does and to have your pen or pencil kind of ready but what i'm gonna ask you to do is to go ahead and do something i rarely ask and that is to put your pen or pencil down i actually don't want it in your hands at all for the next couple of minutes i'm going to up do what at what i call the sixteen card activity and i wanna make sure everybody can see these i think you'll be able to but what i'm going to do in just a minute is i'm going to show you a word on a card and i'll sort of uh... rotate it i'll say it outloud and then i'll go to the next word and the next word and i'm gonna end up showing you sixteen words by the time i'm done you're going to think it was like forty but it's only sixteen and i want you to try to memorize them all which is easy for me to say not so easy for you to do but here's the little trick to this as soon as i have shown you the last word i'm gonna say the magic word which is ok as soon as they say okay hurry grab your pen or pencil and write down as many of these words as you can remember before you forget 'em and you don't have to write 'em in order just whatever's in there hurry and write it down and then i'll explain what all of this is about okay so that's the goal of this and again i want you just to stay quiet and concentrate and i'll go through them pretty quickly

Channel: Long Beach City College

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Length: 44min 33sec (2673 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 06 2011