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Now we're recording great.

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We are in business.

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This presentation is Strategies

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for Studying and
Retaining information.

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We're going into finals

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coming up in the next
couple of weeks.

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Hopefully you can use some of

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these strategies to help you as

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you prepare for your
upcoming exams.

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This slide is just in there

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just in case you're not aware,

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you may be already that we do

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offer tutoring here on campus.

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If you're interested
in requesting a tutor,

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you can click on this website.

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It'll take you to some
information for our math table,

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writing table, meeting
with specialists.

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There is some information
on this website.

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What is memory?

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Well memory is really important
to learning and that's

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probably pretty obvious
but it helps us to recall,

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and apply what we've learned.

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It also prevents us from needing

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to continually relearn material.

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It offers a connection

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to our past learning
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Our ability to recall
things that we've done,

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things that we know,

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it really helps us.

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That's why it's so important
particularly with learning,

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because we don't want

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to have to keep relearning
things over and over again.

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We want to get it from
our short-term to

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long-term memory so
that we know it.

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What is this just a
little bit about memory.

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Short-term memory is our ability

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to store a small
amount of information,

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keep that information
in our minds,

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and have it readily available
for a short period of time.

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Some things we don't need
to know for example,

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I memorized the Zoom just now,

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the Zoom ID because I have
a pen but nothing to write

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it down with so I
quickly memorize the ID,

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and rehearsed it a few times.

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I went over to the
computer, typed it in,

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got it, its set up,

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but I don't remember it now.

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I don't need to remember
it now, it's done.

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Had I continued to rehearse it,

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maybe made it into
a song which is

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something we're going to
talk about in a little bit,

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I might remember it tomorrow.

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But if we don't really involve

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ourselves with certain
memories or information,

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if we don't rehearse it,

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if it's not actively maintained

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that it's only going to last a

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few seconds and maybe that's
all we needed to use it for.

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It's also commonly
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our short-term memory
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only seven items at once,

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maybe plus or minus two.

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Maybe as little as
five as much as nine.

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When we think about
like phone numbers and

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social security numbers
that's how they're set up.

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They're actually broken down

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which we're going to talk about.

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That's done
purposefully so that we

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can help remember
them in chunks.

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We're going to talk a
lot about rehearsal,

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and ways to approach

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studying for exams and to
remember other information,

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because the goal is that we
can move what we know and

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what we're learning from

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that short-term where we
have it and it's gone,

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to long term so it can
be recalled later.

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If you're studying for an exam,

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some people will cram
the night before,

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and that might be okay for
the next day for some people,

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but the likelihood that
that information is going

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to go into long-term
memory is low,

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because it's not
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It's just you crammed

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and crammed to dump what
you know the next day,

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but you're not really
going through the process

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to get it from short-term
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If you have an exam
in three weeks

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that is comprehensive and
covers a lot of material,

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if you crammed before
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to need to go over that material

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again and study
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you probably haven't remembered

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everything that you crammed for.

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It's not a really good strategy.

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I always recommend
that you review

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notes and other
information repeatedly,

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until it is committed to memory.

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There's some tricks and

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tips that I'm going to share
with you for how to do that.

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Again, cramming is overload.

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Beyond that short
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it's probably not going to stay.

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Maybe you're just planning
for something you have to

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present some information in

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the morning and you
cram the night before,

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you really work and it's
just a one and done,

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then that might be okay if
you don't need it later.

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But when it comes to academics

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a lot of the
information we need,

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and if you likely don't

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have just one exam so if you're
taking multiple classes,

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cramming is just way too much.

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You want to make sure
that you're really

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being a part of the information,

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a part of the material,

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and rehearsing it so
that you will know it.

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This is just a little
chart. We get input.

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That could be for example
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saw that Zoom ID.

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I took it for a

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second it's lost now because
I didn't attend to it.

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If I attended to
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made it into a song,

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then hopefully it
will go to from,

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it can stay in my
short-term memory,

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but if I'm really involved
with it, I write it down,

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I study it every
day, in 10 days,

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in two weeks, maybe even

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next year I'll still
remember that.

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But over time it will be lost.

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The ultimate goal for
learning is to get

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important information
that we need to

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know from our sensory memory,

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to a short-term memory,

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and then eventually
to long-term memory.

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Really the goal here
now that we know some

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of the basics about
learning and memory,

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what are we going to do
with this information?

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What are some strategies to help

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us retain that information?

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How do we rehearse it?

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How do we manipulate it?

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One of the recommendations
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first and foremost
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Where you study?

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Because you need
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order to remember material and

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to really rehearse that material

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so that it can be
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you need to be in
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you're not overloaded with

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other sensory input or

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other input or noises
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A lot of people will
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asleep when they
read and I'll ask

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them why do you read?
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Well, that's very
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happen because when we get
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Not always. I read in
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but if that's your
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and you're falling asleep then

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it's definitely interfering
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I know if I'm reading

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a chapter in a book and
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sleepy I'm reading that
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then the next day I
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or two because I don't
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Finding places to study;

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now this guy looks like
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but maybe he needs to

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be a little bit more

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active or maybe he
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move around, drink more of
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Finding places to study
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taking breaks, that's
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Get yourself into a
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of finding a location
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Reducing media.

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Now, I love to listen to music,

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and so listening to
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But if you've got music,
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and you're on the computer
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that's a lot of overload.

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You may think that
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but these are distractions.

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Having all of that going on
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It's okay to take breaks,

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but I would say if
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take a break from the material,

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then go to the TV
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and use that as
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than having it all
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Remember you're
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your brain to help you retain
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Social media, that's
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that I would say if you can try

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to use that as another break.

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If you get alerts on your phone

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that somebody put
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or Instagram or something,

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you're going to be distracted

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and it's going to interfere.

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I'm not saying you should
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but trying to make sure that
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the material is going to
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One of the things that's
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take anything from this
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it's that we remember in people,

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remember information
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Meaningful meaning it's
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it's either a story or a song.

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It might be a visual.

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example there's a girl on

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the screen here and
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If I were to say to you what are

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some important things
about mnemonics?

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You might remember that

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there's a girl laughing
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if you make it into
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you'll remember it because
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We remember things that
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just random information that
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Mnemonics which you may already

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do or know about, are off it.

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They're either like a word
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help people remember
information, particularly lists.

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They're easy to
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and it can stick with you
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Because again we remember
personal, humorous,

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or otherwise
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than meaningless sequences.

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Here are a couple of examples.

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I did this for nursing students,

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which is, hence we
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Now I did not know
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That there was a mnemonic for
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I would always
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I would never like if
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the lakes I don't know that
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because I've done
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and I found this mnemonic,

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and the other ones
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Now if I have to remember

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the Great Lakes I just need
to think of the word homes,

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and then I can easily
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Nursing. I've been working a lot

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with nursing students on
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a lot of mnemonics for

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the medical profession
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so much information that
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I found this, I'm not a nurse,

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but this is one thing that
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Like if there's a sprain,

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if somebody sprains their ankle,

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they'll say, ''Rest it,

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ice it,'' for compression and

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elevation and that's
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I will remember that now
because I've done this.

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I've gone over it a few
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remember this rice tag
and what it stands for.

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We've taken otherwise
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and made it into something
that we can help

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remember and you can
create your own.

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There are ways that
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your own mnemonics making

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it into a sentence or something

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fun with whatever you
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This is one that's been
around for a long time.

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ROYGBIV, the colors
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Easy to remember what they are.

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If you're not familiar with
that one, there's other ones.

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Did I talk about this one?

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Let me see. Sorry
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I'm going to go back up,
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This is one that I learned very

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young and ROYGBIV and
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Another one is PEMDAS,

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which is the math
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it's like for math and

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that's one that I learned as

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please excuse my
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but they call it PEMDAS now.

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It's another example
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to remember information
by making it meaningful.

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I know that we have one person

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on Zoom and one
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so I'm not going to ask
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What I'm going to do is
show you some letters

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and what I would like
you to do is think about

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them and then try to

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remember them when I pull
the blank screen up.

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I'm only going to show
them to you for a minute.

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Like not even a
minute. That's tough.

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I didn't show it to
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Even if I show it again,

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you might have some of it,

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but what if I were to
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Was that easier?

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I know I don't have

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let see if i have
anything in the chat.

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Yeah. It was easier.

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I'm getting them in the chat.

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These are the same letters,

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but they don't mean
anything to us.

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I didn't really look at

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exactly how much time I
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but this is information
we can remember.

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These are acronyms.

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You see this and you're
going to remember

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this and you might even
remember these tomorrow.

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Because if I were to

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ask someone, do you
remember what they were?

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Maybe not all four of them,

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but you might remember
the first three

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because they're really common.

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This is called chunking and

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it's a way to help us
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Again, phone numbers.

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If you were to say what's
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I guarantee you got whatever
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so you might say 315-298-7761.

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I'm just making that up. We
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We pause so that we can
remember it easier.

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It's easier to remember
them in groups.

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Once we know our area
code, we've got that.

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Sometimes people will tell
me their phone number

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and if I hear it's 315,
I just throw that.

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I just put the, I
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That's ingrained in my memory.

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I've lived in Central New York
pretty much my whole life.

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I need to only focus on

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the other seven numbers to
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Social Security is done
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people will pause 123-45-6789.

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Did I do that right? 3, 6,

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7, 8, 9,

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10 it's 10 numbers,

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but that's done on purpose.

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One really cool
memorization strategy is to

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use flashcards and you can

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also put some mnemonic
on some flashcards.

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I recommend if you're going
to do a definition on

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one side and the term on the

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other that you make
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maybe add a picture,

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anything to help make
that information stick.

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This is a little snippet of

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information about how
making sure that you're

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using both sides and

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then I would review
even the ones that

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you already know
because the more

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repetitious you can
make your studying,

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the more likely
you'll remember it.

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But then if you're stuck on some

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maybe put that in the no pile.

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The yes, I've studied these,

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I've got these the yes,

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the ones I'm like,
I got it this time,

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the last time I didn't sort them

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out and making sure that

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you're repeatedly
looking at them.

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Again, using visuals,
using color.

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We remember all of that.

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We remember that information.

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Some other strategies
you can use.

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These are some visualization
tricks, silly images,

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memorizing information as
mental images or chaining.

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Here is a mental chain.

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Let's take the one down here,

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the first four words are shoe,

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piano, tree and pencil.

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If I were to just read
all of these and say,

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tell me what they are.

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Maybe right now you
could if I went,

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because you've looked
at them a few times,

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you'll probably miss some.

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But unless you look at
this over and over again,

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there might only be one
or two that stand out.

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Maybe it's because you saw
pizza and you were thinking,

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I remember thinking I
had pizza last night.

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Remember, the pizza was
on that slide or I love

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basketball and I saw that.

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But another way to help
remember it and keep it in

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your memory is to find
some weird, funny image.

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Even if you can't draw,

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just do the best you can.

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A piano with shoes on it,

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tree had pianos in

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it and there was a
pencil stuck in a tree.

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While regardless,

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when you take this away,
you're going to remember,

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I just remember
shoes on a piano,

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something about a tree and
there was like a pencil.

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Now you've got the
first four down.

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You could do the same
thing you could do,

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the dog was eating pizza.

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Well, I was reading
my book on the bus.

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There's another four that you

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could do. Anything you can do.

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You're trying to use your brain

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to remember things that are

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meaningful, things that are fun.

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You might not have to
memorize this list,

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but there might be other terms.

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Biology has a lot of
terms, the sciences do.

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Psychology might, so try to make

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it into something meaningful.

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I can't say enough
about repetition.

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Can you remind me
of your first name?

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Luwanda.

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Luwanda is in the room
with me and I don't

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know if you saw it when
I was trying to remember

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that ID for Zoom,

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I was saying it, I
was repeating it,

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and I didn't want
any distractions.

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If somebody had
come into the room,

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I probably would have lost it.

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But I set it over and

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then I punched it
in and it was good.

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That helped me to get
from my computer to

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the other computer to type in
the Zoom link, the Zoom ID.

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But if you want to
remember it beyond that,

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you need to more than
once repeat it out loud,

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create those flashcards,
make it into something

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funny so you can use it
later while you're studying.

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Repetition helps everyone
even doing things.

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If you've said like,

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here's another example,

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this room is set up so that I
can have somebody in Fulton

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being on this an online person

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which we have and then
somebody in Auburn.

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I haven't been down here to set

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this up in like a
month and a half.

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Now, I'm here and I
had to remind myself,

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it didn't come easy to me.

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But if I was doing
this every day,

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it would be I have learned
it and it would be in great.

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Maybe if I don't do this for

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another two years where I've

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just set up all this technology,

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I might need the cheat sheet
again that they have here.

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It is okay to sometimes have to,

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everything isn't riding a bike.

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But the more we do something
and see something,

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the more likely we're
going to remember.

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I'm Dr. Grella,

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I should have said that
right from the get-go.

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I am the Accessibility
Specialist here at the college,

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so I work in Auburn and Fulton

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and I'm really appreciate
if you need to contact me,

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my information is here

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and this will be
recorded and put on.

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It is recording, so it'll be on

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the website and I'm
going to just stop

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the recording now and see
if there's any questions.