Memory Improvement
The Mempowered site has detailed information about improving your memory, memory problems, and how the memory works:
www.memory-key.com
This interactive site from Virginia Tech helps students to understand how to concentrate and improve memory:
www.ucc.vt.edu/academic_support_students/online_study_skills_workshops/improving_concentration_memory/index.html
Take this memory quiz to test your memory. It is followed by suggested ways to improve your memory.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/longevity/memory/questions.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthHealthyAging_20090711
Consult the Help Guide for improving memory. Topics include an explanation of how the memory works, brain exercises, guidelines to improve memory, mnemonic devices, healthy habits to improve memory, and memory and aging.
http://www.helpguide.org/life/improving_memory.htm
Use Study Stack to create your own flashcards online:
http://www.studystack.com/java-studysta/frames.jsp
For more information on memory techniques, visit Mind Tools at:
http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html
For more information on using mnemonics:
http://www.mindtools.com/mnemeffc.html
The College Atlas contains information on general study skills, reading and writing, test taking and preparation, time management, memory techniques and study skills for specific subjects:
http://www.collegeatlas.org/college-study-guides.html
Read about the Top 10 Memory Improvement Tips:
http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/tp/memory_tips.htm
Reading Improvement
The Virginia Tech site has many resources on reading including reading difficult material, interpretive reading, reading essays,
reading fiction, reading speed and comprehension, reading critically, pre-reading strategies, marking and underlining and taking
notes from a textbook.
http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
See the Dartmouth College site for Reading Your Textbook Effectively and Efficiently:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/reading.html
The Virginia Tech website provides a good review of SQ3R and how to make an action plan for reading your college textbooks.
www.ucc.vt.edu/academic_support_students/study_skills_information/sq3r_reading-study_system/index.html
Study Skills Self-Help is available at Virginia Tech University, including topics on memory and reading:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
Positive Thinking
Read about the Power of Positive Thinking:
http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000009.htm
For famous quotes about positive thinking:
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/positive_thinking/
Brain Apps
You can find apps for exercising your brain including brain teasers, games and creativity boosters at: http://www.onlinepsychologydegree.net/2012/07/24/your-brain-on-apps-improving-cognitive-functioning/