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Mnemonicsv Tricks for remembering things
v Link method v Make up a story linking items together v Remember: diamond, brain, hairbrush,
horse, window, gondola, baby, treasure, doctor, cook, desk
Link methodv Example: supreme court justices
v Kennedy v Thomas v Ginsburg v Breyer
v Roberts v Alito v Sotomayor v Kagan
Method of Lociv Associate list items with points on a familiar
path (or routine) v Remember: milk, eggs, coffee, apples v Series of locations
v front door, sidewalk, driveway, car
Method of Lociv Practice
v Create your own sequence of locations, or routine (you can write it down for now)
v At least 10 “locations”
Pegword methodv Learn system of associations in advance
v Use these as “pegs” to “hang” your list items on
Pegword methodv 1-bun
v 2-shoe
v 3-tree
v 4-door
v 5-hive
v 6-sticks
v 7-heaven
v 8-gate
v 9-line
v 10-hen
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Pegword methodv 1 - bun - milk v 2 - shoe - eggs v 3 - tree - coffee v 4 - door - apples
First-letter methodsv Use the first letter of each item to make a
word or sentence v Every Good Boy Does Fine v All Cows Eat Grass (All Cars Eat Gas) v Good Boys Do Fine Always v FACE v ROYGBIV v HOMES v My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas v Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti v Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Let’s make one ourselves…v Visual search
v Conjunction search = serial processing v Feature search = parallel processing
Let’s make one ourselves…v Conjunction
v Serial
v Feature
v Parallel
Let’s make one ourselves…v Cotton
v Socks
v Feel
v Pleasant
First-letter methodsv Use any time you have a list to remember
v characteristics of sensory memory, STM, LTM
v list of memory disorders v list of advantages or disadvantages of
something
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Keyword methodv Good for remembering unfamiliar or foreign
words 1. Think of a keyword that sounds like the
word you want to learn • e.g. Duck in Spanish is pato • Keyword=pot (sounds like pato)
2. Imagine the keyword interacting with the foreign word’s meaning • e.g. a duck walking around with a pot
on its head
Keyword methodv Use to remember names
v Picture the person interacting with a word that sounds like his name v e.g. Gordon: picture the man gardening v e.g. Mr. Letterman: picture the man
writing a letter
Keyword methodv Use in conjunction with method of loci to
remember gender of foreign language words
v Imagine different locations v “Put” all of your masculine terms in one
place, feminine in another
Mnemonicsv Why do they work?
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