Mnemonics!
v  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 method !!
v  Example: supreme court justices
v  Scalia
v  Roberts
v  Kennedy
v  Alito
v  Thomas
v  Sotomayor
v  Ginsburg
v  Kagan
v  Breyer
Method of Loci!
v  Used by ancient Greeks to remember
speeches
v  Associate list items with points on a familiar
path (or routine)
Method of Loci!
v  Practice
v  Create your own sequence of locations,
or routine (you can write it down for now)
v  At least 10 locations
v  Example
v  Remember: milk, eggs, coffee, apples
v  Series of locations
v  front door, sidewalk, driveway, car
Pegword method!
Pegword method!
v  Learn system of associations in advance
v  1-bun
v  6-sticks
v  Use these as pegs to hang your list items on
v  2-shoe
v  7-heaven
v  3-tree
v  8-gate
v  4-door
v  9-line
v  5-hive
v  10-hen
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Pegword method!
v  Mentally link items in your to-be
First-letter methods!
v  Use the first letter of each item to make a
remembered list to each item in the peg
word list
word or sentence
v  1 - bun - milk
v  All Cows Eat Grass (All Cars Eat Gas)
v  2 - shoe - eggs
v  Every Good Boy Does Fine
v  Good Boys Do Fine Always
v  FACE
v  3 - tree - coffee
v  ROYGBIV
v  4 - door - apples
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…!
Let s make one ourselves…!
v  Visual search
v  Conjunction
v  Conjunction search = serial processing
v  Feature search = parallel processing
v  Serial
v  Feature
v  Parallel
Let s make one ourselves…!
v  Cotton
First-letter methods!
v  Use any time you have a list to remember
v  Socks
v  characteristics of sensory memory, STM,
v  Feel
v  list of memory disorders
v  Pleasant
v  list of advantages or disadvantages of
LTM
something
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Keyword method!
v  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)
Keyword method!
v  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
2.  Imagine the keyword interacting with the
foreign word s meaning
•  e.g. a duck walking around with a pot
on its head
Keyword method!
v  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
Keyword method!
v  Cat = die Katze à in a church
v  Dog = der Hund à in a health club
v  Sauerkraut = das Sauerkraut à in a barn
place, feminine in another
Mnemonics!
v  Why do they work?
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