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I am not very good at remembering things...

  • 31-01-2013 4:46pm
    #1
    Shauna1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭


    I am trying to learn the muscles of the face for college and as of right now, I am remembering the easy ones but then when it comes to remembering the hard ones, I jumble them all up. I am now getting frustrated with the notes.

    I have written down my own notes and drew a picture but I have a feeling it's going to take more than that to try and remember....
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  • #2
    Squeaky the Squirrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Squeaky the Squirrel


    How much sleep are you getting? Not enough can mess up the moving of stuff from the hippocampus – which provides short-term storage for memories – to the prefrontal cortex -->Long term storage.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Shauna1992 wrote: »
    I am trying to learn the muscles of the face for college and as of right now, I am remembering the easy ones but then when it comes to remembering the hard ones, I jumble them all up. I am now getting frustrated with the notes.

    I have written down my own notes and drew a picture but I have a feeling it's going to take more than that to try and remember....

    Mnemonics!
    You could use acronyms but I find its often harder to remember unless you're lucky enough that it forms a coherent word. My preferred way is to create a sentence with a word for each letter of the acronym.

    Another thing is not to write things/draw things more than once. It's easier if you're working off one mental image. With one image, sometimes something as simple as being able to recall the order that the labels were in is enough to make you remember them.


  • #4
    countrynosebag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭countrynosebag


    I had a brain injury and that stymied my uni life, did my degree, accident so no doctorate for me - very disappointed but concentration and memory variable and never all that good. Have been doing game -play for concentration and to make my brain work also painting and now to couple it with the developing arthritus a recorder (dreadful staccato row) i get frustrated as i cannot do things efficiently anymore but i do find that repeating helps to read books and have to go back several pages
    so, stick with it at uni - i did use weird words and walked about the garden muttering and each word fitted long lists of things to enhance my essays and quotes, and i noted down those words on my rough sheets BEFORE i turned papers over so i did not lose any important points i wished to enhance my performance
    good luck - try all ideas you can find and something will suit you


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