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Mnemonics Make use of semantic elaboration
and visual imagery Associate study material with
special structural descriptions (chunking) Each mnemonic is useful for a specific
kind of study material.
Mnemonics Make use of semantic elaboration and
visual imagery Associate study material with special
structural descriptions (chunking) Each mnemonic is useful for a specific kind of
study material. Binary numbers Miller (1956). For example:
011011101101101010110001111011. Recode each set of 4 digits as an octal (base 8) digit. Remember the string as a set of octal numbers. Number of 0’s and 1’s remembered with “chunking”
technique increased dramatically.
Common Mnemonics and Study Strategies Method of Loci Peg word Rhyme Natural Language Mediation
Common Mnemonics and Study Strategies Method of Loci
Used in Ancient Greece. Imagine the to-be-remembered
objects in a series of places in a very familiar location.
Peg word Rhyme Natural Language Mediation
Common Mnemonics and Study Strategies Method of Loci Peg word Rhyme
Memorize a peg word rhyme, for example: One is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree, etc.
Use the rhyme for learning ordered lists of items:
Create a sequence of images in which each image links the “peg word” and the item to be remembered.
Natural Language Mediation
Common Mnemonics and Study Strategies Method of Loci Peg word Rhyme Natural Language Mediation
Associate a meaningless term with something that is meaningful.
For example, in learning nonsense trigrams, associate “ptg” with “paper tiger”.
Combined with imagery, natural language mediation helps with learning foreign vocabulary.
Famous Mnemonists Mnemonists either have very rich visual
memories or have encoded very detailed verbal patterns.
Famous mnemonists Professor A.C. Aitken:
Huge store of knowledge about numbers. Large number of strategies for doing calculations. Reduce the problem to a manageable load on
working memory by recoding it. S:
Amazing memory was the result of synesthesia.
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