strategies for improving memory

strategies for improving memory

1. Verbal techniques

   • Acronyms
     • e.g ROYGBIV to remember colours of the rainbow
   • Acrostics
   • rhymes
   • chunking

2. GLIDDEN ET AL. found verbal mnemonics were effective in children with learning disabilities, although not in the long term.

3. limitations of mnemonic strategies - reshearch is often conducted in lab conditions with materials appropriate to mnemonic strategies, therefore may not apply to everyday life.

4. Role of organisation- BOWER ET AL. conducted a lab experiment.

5. visual techniques

   • Method of loci
     • learner associates material to be learned with different locations in a house, along a road ,etc. then the learner mentally retraces their steps to real the items.
   • Keyword method
   • mind maps