memory improvement

memory improvement

1. Mnemonics

   • an acronym is where a word or ssentence is formed from the initial letters of other words.
   • ROYGBIV - colours of the rainbow
   • acrostic poems.
     • "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets"
       • Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

2. Chunking

   • George Miller (1956) (7 items plus or minus 2)
   • Chuncking involves organising material and making it more understandable.
     • E.G -> 1 4 9 1 6 2 5 3 6 4 9 6 8 1 1 0 0 1 2 1
       • 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121.

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