This document discusses listening, memory, and strategies to improve both. It outlines the stages of listening as sensation, interpretation, and evaluation. Challenges to listening include distractions, shutting out messages, rushing to judgment, and disabilities. Becoming an active listener involves setting purposes, asking questions, and paying attention. Memory is improved by limiting and organizing information, using critical thinking, seeing the big picture, and using strategies like reciting, rehearsing, writing, breaking study into sessions, and creating groupings. Mnemonic devices like visual images, acronyms, and songs can also aid memory.

1. Listening and Memory
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2. The Stages of Listening
 Sensation Stage (hearing.)
 Interpretation Stage.
 Evaluation Stage.

3. Listening Challenges
 Divided attention and distractions.
 Shutting out the message.
 Rushing to judgment.
 Partial hearing loss or learning disabilities.

4. Ways to Become an Active Listener
 Set purposes for listening.
 Ask questions.
 Pay attention to verbal signposts.
 Know what helps and hinders listening.

5. Stages of the Learning Process
1. Experiencing the material (concrete
experience).
2. Relating the material to what you already
know (reflective observation).
3. Forming new ideas (abstract hypothesis).
4. Trying out and communicating new ideas
(active testing).

6. To Move Information into Long-Term
Memory:
 Limit and organize items you are processing
by:
– Separating main points from unimportant details.
– Dividing material into manageable parts.
 Use critical thinking skills.
 Look for the big picture or framework.

7. Memory Strategies
 Know your purpose for remembering.
 Make remembering the information important
to you.
 Understand what you memorize.
 Recite (out loud), rehearse (repeat mentally),
and write.
 Break study into short, frequent sessions.
 Practice the middle.

8. More Memory Strategies
 Create groupings.
 Use flash cards.
 Use tape –recorded material.
 Use mnemonic devices.

9. Mnemonic Devices
 Visual images and associations.
 Acronyms.
 Songs or Rhymes.