Memory
Abstract
This is meant as a study of the human memory, and how to improve it. Within this research paper, I address the issue of helping people remember thing. I also explain that it is a process that takes some getting used to. Memorizing through association yields the easiest and most accurate method of remembrance while doing so with only a short amount of time used.
Associative mnemonics will help anyone, as long as they put a tad bit of effort in, to remember as much as they want. It is a method of active thinking that clearly shows, only people with brain conditions really have "bad memories." I also demystify the myth of the "bad memory," into a misunderstanding of simple in efficiency. If a person does not make it easier for themselves to remember things consciously, then they won't remember as easily, its as simple, and circular as that. Memory is all in the effort for most people.
There are those people with didactic memories (photographic), and can read list of names and numbers, then recite them both backwards and forwards. But that is a special case, only certain people possess a gift like that where it comes so easy to them. It is the job of the rest of, if we want to have a system that works nearly as well as that, to train ourselves to do so. And in doing so we create and internalized second nature, which in turn becomes part of something we don't have to think about much anymore, and it will just magically seem like we all of a sudden have a "good memory." But really, we've just made it more efficient.
Introduction
Have you ever set your keys down, the went back to pick them 2 minutes later, and they're no where to be found? So you spend another 20 minutes of your time that just got wasted away; you finally get tired, sit down, and all of a sudden they're right in front of your face? This kind of incident seems to be prevalent throughout the whole of our society. And just like everyone else, I too have problems often resulting from a "bad memory." Yet here lies the amusing part, most people don't not have "bad memories" at all, in fact, most people in the world have really "good" memories; we just don't have practice in using it efficiently.
So this research paper is on a course to help all people, including myself, practice using our memories better and more efficiently. So hopefully, after a person implements the ideas of this paper, within a short, and reasonable amount of time, they should either notice a difference in their ability remember/recall things, or they wont notice at all, but they'll still be remembering better.
Whether the improvement of ones memory is on a conscious or unconscious level, an efficient memory is an ability most people will greatly benefit from. So never again will one person have spend endless amounts of time looking for things they, "could have SWORN was right THERE five minutes ago;" never again will a person forget or loose their homework, or loose the one fact that would have helped them on an essay exam, or forget to read for class, or forget the name of an actor in a movie, or let slip something that was a secret; well, that's the idea at least.
Purpose
The purpose of this report is to first, and single handedly, improve the memory of anyone who reads it, and secondly, educate people as to the real problems with memory, what it is, show how it works, how we help it to work, and most importantly, impress upon everyone that this is a skill as invaluable as one can get.
I'm going to show everyone, how they too - in your own home no less - can improve your memory.
Problem
Being humans, we often - too often - begin to hear things with no real or good reasoning behind them, as they become common-place, we begin to refer to them more often than not as a "truth," with little basis at all (other than the excessive inappropriate use of a statement). I've got a "bad memory." Well that's not really the case in the majority of people. So our problem here is a combination of an uneducated society - on this issue - along with an inefficient use of a large number of people's memories.
So is it that people are just too lazy to implement some of these simple methods, or just clueless to their own abilities? We'll find out!
Scope
Within the whole of this research paper, I have limited each piece of data to a more simplified form. This is a document written for the average person and tries to stray from the standard, highly technical side of some of these issues. Much study has been done on the human brain, and memory in particular, so much that it's hard to really condense the vast amount of things we do know and the even more vaster amount of things we don't know about our own minds. Because of the time limit of this project, and the space allotted, this report will only deal with and focus on the associative and association-like techniques that have been researched before. Associative techniques are often the easiest to do, quickest to process, and are the best and consistently proven remembrance techniques available to us.
This report is to stand as the quick and easy solution to guiding one person towards a goal of remembering and recalling things much easier. We humans often do many things that are important to us, and consistently have trouble remembering. So here we display measures to explain how we remember things and display a few easy and key techniques to help people with their memories. There are many studies, discoveries and miscellaneous works from various sides of the scientific community that have gone into the study of the human brain.