Retrieve

Your memory comes in a variety of subtypes: 

• Episodic memory: remembering events that happened, such as your wedding day.
• Semantic memory: remembering facts like the sky is blue, or where you went to school.
• Procedural memory: remembering how to dri...

Some subjects feel like they require more intelligence. If understanding an idea requires you to take different ideas into account, it may be more challenging to keep track with a lower working memory. e.g. mathematical proofs.

Conversely, if a subject requires a l...

Drawing something that you want to remember is more effective than using other memory techniques.

Since drawing involves consideration of a thing from so many different angles (visual, spatial, semantic, and verbal) and also involves motor use, the brain stores a memory in more areas...