Memory improvement

Memory improvement

1. Retrival cues

   • Internal cues
     • Same internal physiological state during encoding and recall
   • External cues
     • Physical environment same as where encoded as recalled
   • Lab based - riding a bike unaffected by retrieval cues
     • Evaluation

2. Chunking

   • Grouping gives them a collective meaning to make it comprehensible
   • Evaluate
     • Proven by students as effective
       • learn and recall vast amounts -revision
     • Small chunks recalled better than large

3. Mnemonics

   • Visual imagery
     • focus on visual images eg rooms of house, list items put in each room
     • Evaluation
       • Not everyone can do it
   • Verbal mnemonics
     • Focuses on words - use of acronyms