1. Work
   1. Acquire, store, and retrieve an immense amount of information
      1. Process
   2. Mental Skill
      1. Train and practices
   3. Remember past things
      1. Act in present
      2. Prepare for the future
2. Mechanism
   1. Encoding
      1. Acquire and place new info into our memory.
      2. Type
         1. Automatic
            1. Naturally memorize
         2. Effortful
            1. Make effort to memorize
   2. Storage
      1. Preserve the info
      2. Sensory memory
      3. short term memory
      4. Long term memory
   3. Retrieval
      1. Accessing the previously encoded and stored information and get it out of storage.
      2. Recognition
         1. Associate with a previously experienced event
         2. Occur when we compare new info with stored info
            1. Base on a trigger
      3. Recall
         1. Able to remember sth. that is physically absent at any time
3. Improve Memory
   1. Association
      1. Connect 2 things
         1. Events
         2. Objects
         3. Faces
      2. Memorable context
         1. Attach new info
         2. Create a better memory/fresh info
   2. Imagination
      1. Link two things in imaginary way
      2. Attach new info to imaginary things
4. Mind Map
   1. Create around a specific concept/idea
      1. Branch out broad range of ideas
   2. Words/Images/Symbols
      1. Better understood an idea/concept
   3. Easy understanding
   4. Great for practicing
   5. Involve association and imagination as part of the process
      1. Word to link info when study
   6. Stimulate us to present numerous things