A Method To Memory

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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 more accessible to her
memory retrieval system. I gave her the example of the New York Stock Exchange,
or N.Y.S.E. That helped her a lot, but she was concerned whether or not she
would remember it all for the final, so I told her the more rehearsing she did,
the deeper she would commit the information to memory. She was so happy, she
told me she had to go and study for this test. I had never heard someone so
excited to study.
About a week later Mandy came up to me after psych class and told me she
got an A on her test. She said she owed me and she took me out to lunch. She
even told me that she remembered almost everything she studied and she would do
well on all her tests thanks to me and my ...

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