Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Strategies for Memory Improvement
- Verbal Mnemonics
- Acronyms
- a technique where words are made
out of the first letters of several
words
- 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In
Vain' is used to remember to
colours of the rainbow
- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
- Acrostic
- a technique that are sentences or phrases where the first letter in
each line or word forms the item to be remembered
- 'My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets'
is used to remember the order of the planets
- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
- Rhymes
- a technique that groups
words with an identity or
rhythm
- 'Thirty days hath September, April, June and
November; February has twenty eight alone.
All the rest have thirty-one Except in Leap
Year, that's the time When February's Days
are twenty-nine'
- Chunking
- a technique that involves
dividing a long string of
information into memorable
chunks
- Can you remember the following letters: 'TVCIABBCLTMFOXNASA'?
- Would this be easier: 'TV CIA BBC LTM FOX NASA'?
- Narrative Method
- a technique where a list of words
are learned by linking them together
within the context of a story
- Visual Imagery Mnemonics
- Method of Loci
- a technique that associates parts of material to
be recalled with different places
- Keyword Method
- a technique used to associate two
pieces of information
- Spider diagrams
- Mindmaps
- a technique that involves making notes of information in the form of a
drawing
- an example of a Mindmap would be this. ;)
- Pegword Method
- a technique where each words is
learned on a list associated with those
from a previously memorised list
- 'one is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree,
four is a door, five is a hive, six is sticks, seven
is heaven, eight is a gate, nine is swine, ten is
a hen. '
- Link Method
- a technique where a list of
words are associated with each
other