8 Secrets For Memorizing Things Easily

      In this article you will find very useful tips that will help you for memorizing things easily .

     If you are among the people who are struggling to remember names of people you've met, small details, or some other details from films or books, you should know that this is something you can improve .

Hermann Ebbinghaus

   

   Hermann Ebbinghaus is a german psychologist who is conducted  experiments to study the human memory, and included some methods for the amount of information we can remember .

     He made few lists that contained words without meaning  and included them to evaluate the learning of free meaning .

                                                           

   He claimed that we learn new information  with  our    previous knowledge, therefore he wanted to experiment with words that didn't have any meaning .

   He tested the rate at which we start forgetting the new information. He noticed that he forgot a lot of information in 20 minutes, and more than half of it in the next hour .

 

 Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

  

  He Forgot 2/3 of the information that same day, but he remembered the rest, if he retains the information for the following day, it means it is stored in the memory .

   He also concluded that people learn better and easier when the information is repeated more times which is spaced out over a longer period .

Explanation of this technique :

Short-term storage :

- Right after learning → 1st Repetition .

- After 20 min → 2nd Repetition .

- After 8 hours → 3rd Repetition .

- After a day → 4th Repetition .

Long-term storage :

- Right after learning → 1st Repetition .

- After 20 min → 2nd Repetition .

- After a day → 3rd Repetition .

- After 2 weeks → 4th Repetition .

- After 2 months → 5th Repetition .

  Some other tips and information about memorizing things easily  :

1) you have to be able to understand the information if you want to store it in your memory and recall it later .

2) you have to memorize the things that are most important first, and then pay attention to other things .

3) usually, people memorize things easily when they are learning them at the beginning or at the end .

4) when you are learning a new language, you should associate the words with those you are familiar with .

5) also when learning new vocabulary from a foreign language, you will remember it easier if you learn the opposite words as well .

6) you should also visualize the words you learn and use your body language, because you will easily recall it afterwards .

7) you should try to link one word with another, and you will remember them together .

8) take after these tips and you will never forget the important things again .