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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.
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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. 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.
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Common Mnemonics and Study Strategies Method of Loci Peg word Rhyme Natural Language Mediation
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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
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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
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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.
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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.