Memory Aids

Memory Aids

1. VISUAL MNEUMONICS

   • Acronyms
     • An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word.
       • ROYGBV: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet
   • Acrostics
     • A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
       • Nice Alice Takes A Lie In At home
   • Rhymes
     • Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
       • The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
   • Chunking
     • Dividing a long string of information into smaller pieces.
       • Psychology-> Cognitive Psychology-> Working Memory Model-> Central Executive

2. VISUAL IMAGERY MNEUMONICS

   • Loci
     • A particular position or place where something occurs or is situated.
       • When you think of sweetcorn you think of the kitchen.
   • Spider diagrams
     • A visual representation of hierarchical information that includes a central idea surrounded by connected branches of associated topics, images may be used.
       • THIS
   • The pegword method
     • It works by pre-memorizing a list of words that are easy to associate with the numbers they represent.
       • 1-bun 2-shoe 3-tree 4-door 5-hive