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Mnemonicsv  Tricks for remembering things

v  Link method v  Make up a story linking items together v  Remember: diamond, brain, hairbrush,

horse, window, gondola, baby, treasure, doctor, cook, desk

Link methodv Example: supreme court justices

v  Kennedy v  Thomas v  Ginsburg v  Breyer

v  Roberts v  Alito v  Sotomayor v  Kagan

Method of Lociv  Associate list items with points on a familiar

path (or routine) v  Remember: milk, eggs, coffee, apples v  Series of locations

v  front door, sidewalk, driveway, car

Method of Lociv  Practice

v  Create your own sequence of locations, or routine (you can write it down for now)

v  At least 10 “locations”

Pegword methodv  Learn system of associations in advance

v  Use these as “pegs” to “hang” your list items on

Pegword methodv  1-bun

v  2-shoe

v  3-tree

v  4-door

v  5-hive

v  6-sticks

v  7-heaven

v  8-gate

v  9-line

v  10-hen

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Pegword methodv  1 - bun - milk v  2 - shoe - eggs v  3 - tree - coffee v  4 - door - apples

First-letter methodsv  Use the first letter of each item to make a

word or sentence v  Every Good Boy Does Fine v  All Cows Eat Grass (All Cars Eat Gas) v  Good Boys Do Fine Always v  FACE v  ROYGBIV v  HOMES v  My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas v  Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti v  Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Let’s make one ourselves…v  Visual search

v  Conjunction search = serial processing v  Feature search = parallel processing

Let’s make one ourselves…v  Conjunction

v  Serial

v  Feature

v  Parallel

Let’s make one ourselves…v  Cotton

v  Socks

v  Feel

v  Pleasant

First-letter methodsv  Use any time you have a list to remember

v  characteristics of sensory memory, STM, LTM

v  list of memory disorders v  list of advantages or disadvantages of

something

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Keyword methodv  Good for remembering unfamiliar or foreign

words 1.  Think of a keyword that sounds like the

word you want to learn •  e.g. Duck in Spanish is pato •  Keyword=pot (sounds like pato)

2.  Imagine the keyword interacting with the foreign word’s meaning •  e.g. a duck walking around with a pot

on its head

Keyword methodv  Use to remember names

v  Picture the person interacting with a word that sounds like his name v  e.g. Gordon: picture the man gardening v  e.g. Mr. Letterman: picture the man

writing a letter

Keyword methodv  Use in conjunction with method of loci to

remember gender of foreign language words

v  Imagine different locations v  “Put” all of your masculine terms in one

place, feminine in another

Mnemonicsv  Why do they work?