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A regularity to Memory     The other night I was sitting at al-Qaeda in my room watching the Rocketsgame, and my phone begins to ring. I answer " how-dye-do", and I hear this franticvoice that I recognize as my friend Mandys. Mandy is a nervous wreck, she hasa big bio-chem test in the morning and cant seem to remember a occasion. I askher what diverseness of information she has, and she tells me she has notes and herbook. Now being the nice guy I am, and having vindicatory completed learning more or less retention in my Intro to Psych class, I turned off the T.V. and told her Id helpher learn to memorize things.     The firstborn thing I told her about was a method called rehearsal. Iexplained that rehearsal elusive repeating the information time after time tokeep it from attenuation from her short term entrepot, or STM. She was a bit confusedso I simplified it for her. I reminded her of the other night when she waslooking for the bend to Pizza Hut in the phone book, and when she found it shestarted repeating all over and over until she got to the phone and could dial it.She was astounded that she was doing this all along and didnt however know it. Ithen explained another short term memory method known as chunking. She cringedand thought I was talking about the keg party the other night, but I explainedthat chunking involves taking a large number or word and breaking it shovel in intosmaller pieces that could be remembered easier. I also told her that she couldchunk together the first letters of a phrase to make it more accessible to hermemory retrieval system. I gave her the example of the New York Stock Exchange,or N.Y.S.E. That helped her a lot, but she was concerned whether or not shewould remember it all for the final, so I told her the more rehearsing she did,the deeper she would commit the information to memory.