Improving Your Memory

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Free Online Course: Improving Your Memory provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Improving Your Memory is taught by Paul Nowak.

Overview
  • Improve your memory with these fascinating (and proven!) memorization techniques.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Improving your memory
    • What is short-term memory?
    1. Memory Principles
    • Repetition
    • Exaggeration
    • Chunking
    • Association
    • Pictures
    2. Memory Techniques
    • Using mnemonic devices
    • Note-taking techniques
    • Using songs, rhymes, and alliteration
    • The story method
    • The link system
    • Memory palaces and the method of loci
    • The similar sound technique
    3. Using the Mnemonic Peg System
    • Linking numbers to pictures
    • Memorizing ten items
    • Memorizing more than ten items
    4. Situational Methods
    • How to remember names
    • How to remember presentations
    • How to remember what you read
    • Remembering passwords
    • Remembering important dates
    • Remembering numbers
    • Remembering formulas
    • Remembering your to-do list
    • How to memorize words in foreign languages
    • Memorizing speeches or scripts word for word
    Conclusion
    • Remember memory principles