{"id":2068,"date":"2012-09-15T20:33:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seragpsych.com\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2012-12-02T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T11:20:20","slug":"improve-your-memory-and-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/improve-your-memory-and-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Memory and Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chunking<\/strong><br \/>\nOne way to make it easier to remember several pieces of information is to put it into chunks.<\/p>\n<p>For example, instead of trying to remember these numbers: 2,7,5,3,8,7,9,3,2,6,5,8,9, &amp; 5, try to remember this instead:<\/p>\n<p>2753, 8793, 2658 and 95.<\/p>\n<p>Your brain can retain more information if you group it in this way than if you think of each<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attach Meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can also remember something easier by adding meaning to it.<\/li>\n<li>So, if you\u2019re trying to remember items on a grocery list, you can make a sentence out of them like this: The turkey ate bread and peanut butter before she laid eggs and drank lettuce-flavored milk. This may help you remember to purchase turkey, bread, peanut butter, eggs, lettuce and milk.<br \/>\n<h4>Attaching meaning is also helpful if you\u2019re someone who doesn\u2019t remember names easily.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Repetition<\/strong><br \/>\nThis may seem like an obvious one, but being intentional about repeating something will help it land beyond your short-term memory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Write It Down<\/strong><br \/>\nFinally, write things down. This usually works the best if you have a specific place to write things down, such as a notebook you always keep by the phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chunking One way to make it easier to remember several pieces of information is to put it into chunks. For example, instead of trying to remember these numbers: 2,7,5,3,8,7,9,3,2,6,5,8,9, &amp; 5, try to remember this instead: 2753, 8793, 2658 and 95. Your brain can retain more information if you group it in this way than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,444],"tags":[150,485,138,154,147,604,158,139,601,49,608,607,602,161,603,606,605,143,183,134,62,140,142],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-427","category-444","tag-abstract","tag-adel","tag-analysis","tag-anxiety","tag-book","tag-chunking","tag-examination","tag-fast","tag-improve","tag-individual-psychothterapy","tag-information","tag-meaning","tag-memory","tag-psychiatric","tag-recall","tag-remember","tag-repetition","tag-school","tag-skills","tag-speed","tag-spirit-and-excercise","tag-study","tag-success","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seragpsych.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}