Mnemonic Strategies

Mnemonic Strategies

How do you remember places, events, and people?

Mnemonic StrategiesLong-term Memory

• The storehouse of everything you know about the world and yourself. It is unlimited. Anything you have stored in long-term memory is available for later recall.

Mnemonic StrategiesShort-term Memory

• This is transient working memory. Those things you are paying attention to right now must first pass through this narrow channel. There are two major limitations.

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• First, only a small amount of information can be held there. Second, the information can be held for only a short amount of time. It fades if we shift our attention to something else. It can’t hold anything more than 30 seconds and can store only 5 to 9 items.

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• This is a strategy for organizing information with the only purpose of making it more memorable.

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• Chunking: Listen to the following series of numbers. Pencils down!

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• Chunking

1, 7, 7, 6, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 9, 1, 4, 1, 9, 4, 1, 1, 9, 8, 1, 1, 9, 9, 5

177, 618, 611, 914, 194, 119, 811, 995 or

1776, 1861, 1914, 1941, 1981, 1995

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• Chunking

Vincent is preparing a slide with a series of letters. Get ready to chunk. No pencils!

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R O F G N I O K L O S N R E T P T A P E L H S U N S A R E L

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Anybody want to try?

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R O F G N I O K L O S N R E T P T A P E L H S U N S A R E L

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R O F G N I O K L O S N R E T P T A P E L H S U N S A R E L

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LOOKI NG FOR PATTERNS HELPS US LEARN

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• Key Word

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– ROY G BIV

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– ROY G BIV

– My Very Efficient Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas

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– ROY G BIV

– My Very Efficient Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas

– Norman Eats Shredded Wheat

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– Kings Play Cards On Fuzzy Green Stools

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– Kings Play Cards On Fuzzy Green Stools

– Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

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– Kings Play Cards On Fuzzy Green Stools

– Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

– Know The Canyon’s History; Study Rocks Made By Time

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– King Henry Died Monday Drinking Chocolate Milk (Metric System: Kilometer, Hectometer, Dekameter, Meter, Decimeter, Centimeter, Millimeter)

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– King Henry Died Monday Drinking Chocolate Milk (Metric System: Kilometer, Hectometer, Dekameter, Meter, Decimeter, Centimeter, Millimeter)

– Sally Miller Hates Eating Okra (Great Lakes left to right)

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• Method of Loci

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– Cicero

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– Cicero

– A Stroll through his village

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– Cicero

– A Stroll through his village

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– Cicero

– A Stroll through his village

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– Cicero

– A Stroll through his village

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– Cicero

– A Stroll through his village

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– Cicero

– A Stroll through his village

– Down Snoqualmie’s Main

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– Cicero

– A Stroll through his village

– Down Snoqualmie’s Main

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• Chunking• Key Word

• Method of Loci– Cicero– A Stroll through his village– Down Snoqualmie’s Main

Street– Your Home Floor Plan

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• Chunking• Key Word• Method of Loci

• Peg Word– Numbers : One is a bun;

Two is a shoe; Three is a tree; Four is a door; Five is a hive; Six are sticks; Seven is Heaven; Eight is a gate; Nine is a lion; Ten is a hen

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• Chunking• Key Word• Method of Loci

• Peg Word– Numbers: One is a bun; Two is a shoe; Three

is a tree; Four is a door; Five is a hive; Six are sticks; Seven is Heaven; Eight is a gate; Nine is a lion; Ten is a hen

– Alphabet: Each letter different and based on person’s background

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Potato chips Hot Tamales [candy]

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