特别广播英语第 18 课：Improving your Memory 增强记忆力的方法-1

Psychological research has focused on a number of basic principles that help memory: 心理学家的研究工作已把焦点对准了增强记忆的基本方法上了，这些基本方法就是：

meaningfulness, organization, association, and visualization. 赋予意义、信息编组、建立联想、直观形象。

It is useful to know how these principles work. 知道支用这些方法是很有用的。

Meaningfulness affects memory at all levels. Information that does not make any sense to you is difficult to remember. "赋予意义"能影响瞬时记忆也能影响到长期记忆。没有任何意义的信息要记住就比较困难。

There are several ways in which we can make material more meaningful. 有些方法可以使要记忆的材料赋予意义。

Many people, for instance, learn a rhyme to help them remember. 例如，有很多人利用合辙押韵的办法来帮助记忆。

Do you know the rhyme "Thirty days has September, April, June, and November… "? 你知道"一三五七八十腊，三十一天准不差，其余月份三十天，只有二月二十八"

It helps many people remember which months of the year have 30 days. 这首顺口溜帮助很多人记住了哪些月份有三十天。