Give your self 5 minutes to look through them. Either continuously repeat them in your head, or make a short story using all the words. At the end, try and repeat as many as you can.
Short Answer Questions
View the video to the left.
1. Explain what he meant by Neural Pathways.
2. How can neural pathways be strengthened?
3. Explain why creating a story is beneficial when memorising facts and words.
4. You read the menu on a board inside a cafe. When you try to tell your friend sitting outside all the choices. You forget some. Why can you not remember everything on the list.
5. What is a factor influencing memory?
6. Explain how memory techniques work (use the words, neural pathway, synapse, neurons, repetition, patterns, stimulus and strength) 6 marks
Read through the letters. Look at each line once and try and recall all the letters in order. See how many letters you can remember.
N T
A N L
N F E K
B F E X A
N A Z T P L
M B T F E Q P
U N D A C X Z G
O R B V E X Z D A
R T L D C A G P V E
If you can remember 7 letters in a row then your short term memory is amazing.
To remember more letters by grouping them. This is called chunking.
