<p>on a test, say there is a specific fact or piece of knowledge you are being asked to recall. how do you remember this?</p>
<p>i.e. do you have a photographic memory--you remember where you last saw the piece of information and then remember where it was on the page and how it was written?</p>
<p>or do you have it committed to memory, where you can simply pull up a hypothetical "file" filled with the needed information?</p>
<p>or do you have some other method that i didnt list here?</p>
<p>i usually remember things photographically. i cant always remember the fact but i can usually remember where it was and what it looked like on a page and thus basically copy down my notes/book from my memory</p>
<p>My memory is visual. I remember where in the page the info was and can sometimes visually turn the pages of a book searching for the info until I find it. I don’t understand how the ‘unvisual’ memory works.</p>
<p>i know what you mean… my memory is based on what i have seen (and not necessarily what ive learned)</p>
<p>I can’t describe my memory, I just remember everything and small details no one cares about. </p>
<p>I can think of where I got the info and I’d ok a pretty good idea of what “page” I had read it on, would I be able to visualize the page? It depends, but not if its just a page that looks like all the others. For example in my calc book, I can remember during a test the yellow boxes where important formulas are put.</p>
<p>Argh! Its frustrating to put this in words.</p>
<p>cowman, I’m kind of the same way.
Also, if I say things out loud with a certain rhythm, it’s much easier for me to remember them. I guess it’s repetition, but it’s more the way I say it and it comes back like song lyrics without even knowing what I’m saying…if that makes sense?</p>
<p>Photographic like at times. When I’m angry with someone I can repeat what they said weeks ago word for word no problem. I can recite texts and give the page and paragraph. If I don’t care I can’t remember anything, especially faces.</p>
<p>It seems to be selective. So I also memorize summary concepts and use word association. </p>
<p>In negotiations sometime I scare myself. I recite and repeat and then calculate with rain man like precision.</p>
<p>Can’t spell though.</p>