Strategies for Memory Improvement

Strategies for Memory Improvement

1. 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

2. 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