A Method To Memory
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The other night I was sitting at home in my room watching the Rockets
game, and my phone begins to ring. I answer "Hello", and I hear this frantic
voice that I recognize as my friend Mandy's. Mandy is a nervous wreck, she has
a big bio-chem test in the morning and can't seem to remember a thing. ....
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.... until she got to the phone and could dial it.
She was astounded that she was doing this all along and didn't even know it. I
then explained another short term memory method known as chunking. She cringed
and thought I was talking about the keg party the other night, but I explained
that chunking involves taking a large number or word and breaking it down into
smaller pieces that could be remembered easier. I also told her that she could
chunk together the first letters of a phrase to make it ....
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