THE MIND SEARCHES FOR PATTERNS
The mind tends to organise the information that it receives
and tries to reduce them to simple patterns. This means that
if the information fits into a certain pattern, it will help you
in trying to remember it.
Furthermore, if you categorise the information that you are
trying to memorise, you will be more likely to recall it. This
was demonstrated in an experiment where two groups of
people were given the same 100 words. One group was told
to memorise them and the other was just told to sort and
organise the words in the list. When both groups were tested
the results in recalling the list of words were the same. This
showed that categorising and organising information has a
significant effect on the ability to recall that information.
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