Memory Expansion

A mind map about Memory Expansion. The content includes interpreting and memory，working memory mechanism，visualization：method and demo，integrated exercise.

Memory Expansion

• 1. Interpreting and Memory
  • 1.1. Memory: Enhancing learners' capacity, storing more, retrieving better
  • 1.2. Role of memory in interpreting
    • 1.2.1. For interpreters: notes are ancillary
    • 1.2.2. Listen and process the information and memory the message
      • 1.2.2.1. site visits
      • 1.2.2.2. banquets
      • 1.2.2.3. football coaching
  • 1.3. Importance of memory training
    • 1.3.1. Information we required through lishtening: can only be retained by very limited size and for a short period of time
      • 1.3.1.1. e.g. numbers
    • 1.3.2. Short-term memory
      • 1.3.2.1. Process
        • 1.3.2.1.1. Step1: Information reaches the sensory memory of hearing
        • 1.3.2.1.2. Step2: Memorize it
        • 1.3.2.1.3. Step3: It becomes information in the short-term memory
      • 1.3.2.2. Features
        • 1.3.2.2.1. Extremely limited in size:5-9 unrelated units of information
        • 1.3.2.2.2. The retention is very limited in time: counts in seconds
      • Ok for daily communication: selective; rehearse or repeat to long-term memory
    • 1.3.3. The interpreters' dilemma
      • 1.3.3.1. No time to create long-time memory
      • 1.3.3.2. Average memory capacity cannot satisfy the interpretation: a segment may last for minutes
• 2. Working Memory Mechanism
  • 2.1. Working memory
    • 2.1.1. Definition: Workspace of mind that connects short-term and long-term memory, and maintains information to extend its intention period
    • 2.1.2. Task1: mental arithmetic
      • 2.1.2.1. 247+379=626
        • 2.1.2.1.1. Step1: catch the exact numbers
        • 2.1.2.1.2. Step2: store in mind
        • Short-term memory
        • 2.1.2.1.3. Step3: calculate
        • 2.1.2.1.4. Step4: maintain intermidiate results
        • Long-term memory
  • 2.2. Task2: remembering numbers
    • 2.2.1. Information structuring
    • 2.2.2. Chuncking
  • 2.3. The skills of chunking
    • 2.3.1. The machanism: Activating the existing konwledge in our long-term memory to connect individual pieces of information into a meaningful whole which is stored and then retrieved as an integrated unit.
    • 2.3.2. Task3: Chunking and summary
      • 2.3.2.1. Chunck1: the spread of Ebola
      • 2.3.2.2. Chunck2: WHO's reaction
• 3. Visualization: Method and Demo
  • 3.1. Task1: visualize and retell
    • 3.1.1. Picture1: peak of mountain, a bird's-eye view of Hongkong
    • 3.1.2. Picture2: Avenue of Star
    • 3.1.3. Picture3: ferry across the Victoria Harbor
    • 3.1.4. Picture4: traditional double-decker trams, neon lights
    • Doubling the capacity of remembering
  • 3.2. Situations
    • 3.2.1. Descriptive
    • 3.2.2. Story
    • 3.2.3. Concept
    • Forms: pictures, movies, diagrams,concept maps...
  • 3.3. Task2: a speech by Amold Schwarzenegger
  • 3.4. Advantages of visualization
    • 3.4.1. Store more
    • 3.4.2. Recall more easily
• 4. Integrated Exercise
  • 4.1. Task: a speech by Dame Ellen MacArthur
    • 4.1.1. Scene1: Ellen as a little girl, sailed on the boat amazedly
    • 4.1.2. Scene2: She saved money, and then deposited it into the bank
    • 4.1.3. Scene3: She bought a little dinghy on her own
    • 4.1.4. Scene4: She sat face to face with a CEO and got investment
    • 4.1.5. Scene5: She talked about the details of the boats with the designers
    • 4.1.6. Scene6: Competition & sailing across Atlantic Ocean
    • Relying on brains to process and remember information