Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Top 100 List, Memorization (goals #1 & #2)
i've had a very unique memorization experience. the major points of this post i will examine further in future comments. 1-50 on the list are spread all over my appartment. 51-100 i worked on memorizing by rote. however, this was not my intial plan. i had intended to try 5 different memory methods with list, organizing the titles into groups of 20. these 5 methods were:
* 1-20, names typed out and taped around my appartment
* 21-40, story
* 41-60, sing in a song
* 61-80, associate each title with a turn on my snowboard, memorize the snowboard run
* 81-100, strict memorization by rote
things which didn't work:
the snowboarding run didn't work. i would recite the titles but they would not seem familiar the next time i would take that same run with the same turns. i never felt familiarity with it and after several more runs gave up. i though i might substitute it with climbing, and this didn't work either(largely because i had difficulty holding the list). i think i'm a terrible singer. i did find some rythm in the list(it was mentioned in class, 81-85). i found it was exceptionaly difficult for me to formulate some kind of story which both made sense to read and reflected well on the booklist.
i had to settle with 1-50 around my appartment and 51-100 by rote.
i didn't seem to be able to remember the things in my appartment very well. some of them i knew instantly, the very first moment they became "labeled". others i still don't know(i wonder if i ever will). i find the most effective ones are the ones where the image association seems totaly "surface". my kitchen knives, which are "war and peace", are associated easily and the image appears immediatly in my mind when i try to think of what follows after my crockpot(arabian nights, you can leave your crockpot on all night if you want). this issue of image association and the success and failure i found with it is something i MUST investigate. i'd say there were almost 10 titles i memorized immediatly the very first time i taped a name to them. there are at least 5 which i don't think i'll ever remember.
what makes an object memorable or impossible?
* 1-20, names typed out and taped around my appartment
* 21-40, story
* 41-60, sing in a song
* 61-80, associate each title with a turn on my snowboard, memorize the snowboard run
* 81-100, strict memorization by rote
things which didn't work:
the snowboarding run didn't work. i would recite the titles but they would not seem familiar the next time i would take that same run with the same turns. i never felt familiarity with it and after several more runs gave up. i though i might substitute it with climbing, and this didn't work either(largely because i had difficulty holding the list). i think i'm a terrible singer. i did find some rythm in the list(it was mentioned in class, 81-85). i found it was exceptionaly difficult for me to formulate some kind of story which both made sense to read and reflected well on the booklist.
i had to settle with 1-50 around my appartment and 51-100 by rote.
i didn't seem to be able to remember the things in my appartment very well. some of them i knew instantly, the very first moment they became "labeled". others i still don't know(i wonder if i ever will). i find the most effective ones are the ones where the image association seems totaly "surface". my kitchen knives, which are "war and peace", are associated easily and the image appears immediatly in my mind when i try to think of what follows after my crockpot(arabian nights, you can leave your crockpot on all night if you want). this issue of image association and the success and failure i found with it is something i MUST investigate. i'd say there were almost 10 titles i memorized immediatly the very first time i taped a name to them. there are at least 5 which i don't think i'll ever remember.
what makes an object memorable or impossible?
# posted by Mick @ 5:52 PM 
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test #2 question #30something
What is number 10 on the MSU top 100 booklist?
MY COUNTER TOP! SO MUCH FOOD! SO MUCH ADVENTURE! it had to be alice in wonderland.
i was amazed to find that every single one of the test questions referencing the booklist we had to memorize was somehow still in my memory. they were the easiest questions on the test in my opinion(even easier than the questions about classmates and their epics).
when i recited the list in Dr. Sexsons office, i didn't feel like i had memorized it. apparently, i did. i didn't even know it.
amazing! :-O
What is number 10 on the MSU top 100 booklist?
MY COUNTER TOP! SO MUCH FOOD! SO MUCH ADVENTURE! it had to be alice in wonderland.
i was amazed to find that every single one of the test questions referencing the booklist we had to memorize was somehow still in my memory. they were the easiest questions on the test in my opinion(even easier than the questions about classmates and their epics).
when i recited the list in Dr. Sexsons office, i didn't feel like i had memorized it. apparently, i did. i didn't even know it.
amazing! :-O
upon reflection, i now realize that, though it took me 3 minutes to remember "Alice" as #10, i remembered #8, the Tao Te Ching(the coffee pot), number #12, Ulysses(the kitchen sink faucet), and #13, Pale Fire(the dim sink light) immediatly. I've been thinking about why this happened.
I remember objects more clearly than areas. Each object associated in my memory with a book title is clear. Book titles associated with areas(instead of objects) are much fuzzier for recall.
strange!
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I remember objects more clearly than areas. Each object associated in my memory with a book title is clear. Book titles associated with areas(instead of objects) are much fuzzier for recall.
strange!
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