Tools for Improving Memory in Science

(11.0) Semantic Depth

• Semantic Depth

• Photography - a tool for improving memory

  • Slow Motion

  • Time Lapse

• Multiple modalities

• Discrepant scenes and events

(11.1) The Primacy and Recency Effect

• Memory (CSCS activity)

(11.2) Expanding Short-Term Memory by Chunking

• Remembering scientific terms by chunking

  • Chunking - Memory Techniques

  • Understanding and remembering muscle names

    • • Running 

      • Ankle motion

      • Force coupling - shoulder

      • Chewing

(11.3) Science Acronyms and Abbreviations

• Common acronyms - what do they mean?

(11.4) Acrostics for Memorizing Lists

• Common acrostics

Additional Resources

• Related CSCS activities

• Chapter 11 (pdf) - (CSUN faculty only)