Psychological research has focused on a number of basic principles that help memory:meaningfulness,organization,association,and visualization.It is useful to know how these principles work.

Meaningufulness affects memory at all levels.Information that does not make any sense to you is difficult to remember.There are several ways in which we can make material more meaningful.Many people,for instance,learn a rhyme to help them remember.Do you know the rhyme "Thirty days has September,April,June,and November..."?It helps many people remember which months of the year have 30 days.

Organization also makes a difference in our ability to remember.How useful would a library be if the books were kept in random order?Material that is organized is better remember than jumbled information.One example of organization is chunking.Chunking consists of grouping separate bits of information.For example,the number 4671363 is more easily remembered if it is chunked as 467.13.63.Catergorizing is another means of organization.Suppose you are asked to remember the following list of words:man,bench,dog,desk,woman,horse,child,cat,chair.Many people will group the words into similar categories and remember them as
follows:man,woman,child;cat,dog,horse;bench,chair,desk.Needless to say,the second list can be remembered more easily than the first one.

Assciation refers to taking the material we want to remember and relating it to something we remember accurately.In memorizing a number,you might try to associate it with familiar numbers or events.For example,the height of Mount Fuji In Japan---12.389 feet--might be remembered using the following associations:12 is the number of months in the year,and 389 is the number of days in a year(365)added to the number of months twice(24).

The last principle is visualization.Research has shown striking improvements in many types of memory tasks when people are asked to visualize in the  items to be remembered.In one study,subjects in one group were asked to learn some words using imagery,while the second group used repetition to learn the words.Those using imagery remembered 80 to 90 percent of the words,compared with 30 to 40 percent of the words for those who memorized by repetition.Thus forming an intergrated image with all the information placed in a single mental picture can help us to perserve a memory.

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Practice is a only way to improve english.Just do the revision again and again.

Thank you very much.I  especially need  to improve my memory .

Meaningfulness,organization,association,and visualization are definitely good ways to improve the memory. However we still need to work hard.

Everything is to say easily ,but is  to do difficultly,I think.We can't have a perfect ability to memorize,so we must pay  much time and energy.When I  learn the same even easy English words,I had to memorize over and over,I recall I wrote the Chinese vocabulary recurrently on my primary school,that also wasn't easily.they are the same hard for me to know of,it's just not in the same period.But now,many years past,the first language is more easy for me than the second language.Only  need we much enough time when we start to contact and  learn another language.Needless to say,the only way to success is to take action and insist  .