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V. Let’s Talk
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Student: Professor, thank you for graining me this interview. I’m Susan, a reporter from the Student Union magazine. Many students have difficultly memorizing things. Since you‘re an outstanding psychologist2, could you give us some tips on how top improve our memory?
Professor: Well, some people have better memories than others, but that’s largely3 because they are better at creating mental images.
Student: If I’m not good at creating images, what can I do?
Professor: Practice helps. And the mind remembers things better if they are connected with other images. For example, I you have to pick up several items4 at the grocery5 store, say, carrots, egg, bananas, and milk, you can create a picture in your mind of a giant carrot, and hanging from it, a banana.
Student: Then I could have a giant milk carton pouring milk over the carrot and banana.
Professor: Certainly. Then what would you do with the egg?
Student: Hmmm. I’d visualize6 an egg-shaped UFO flying across the sky.
Professor: There you go. The more you apply the ideas, the easier it gets. Besides creating pictures, there’s another technique that is very useful.
Student: What is it?
Professor: Establishing an association7. Suppose you are looking for lost keys.
Relax, and let your mind look for all the images connected with those keys--their feel, the sounds they make.
Student: How will that help?
Professor: You might remember the sound the keys made when you placed then in a drawer or cold touch of the keys in your jacket were you left them.
Student: Oh my gosh! I have to run. It’s time my English class. I see an image of my teacher staring at my empty seat in the classroom. Many thanks, Professor.
Professor: Not at all, and good luck with your memory.
Ways of Improving One’s Memory |
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Creating images |
To remember the items to buy sat the grocery store such as carrots, eggs, bananas, and milk |
Images that you may help: 1.a giant carrot and a banana hanging from it 2. a giant milk carton pouring milk over the carrot and banana 3. an egg-shaped UFO flying across the sky |
Establishing associations8 |
To find your lost keys |
Associations with sound touch that may help: 1. The sound of the keys might remind you of y\having placed then in a drawer. 2. The cold touch of the keys might remind you of them in your jacket. |
1 script | |
n.剧本,广播稿;文字体系;笔迹,手迹 | |
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2 psychologist | |
n.心理学家;心理学研究者 | |
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3 largely | |
adv.大部分,主要地 | |
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4 items | |
n.物料项目 (任何一种自制或采购的零部件或组装件,如最终产品、部件、子部件、零件或原材料);条( item的名词复数 );一项;一则;一件商品(或物品) | |
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n.食品,杂货;食品杂货店 | |
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6 visualize | |
vt.使看得见,使具体化,想象,设想 | |
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n.联盟,协会,社团;交往,联合;联想 | |
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n.协会( association的名词复数 );联合;联系;(思想、感觉、记忆等的)联想 | |
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