Mnemonics

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Mnemonics

• Ways to remember

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How does your brain remember?

• Information must be rehearsed to be remembered.

Long Term Memory
Sensory Memory
Short Term Memory
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Long Term Memory

• Two Parts

Long Term Memory Procedural Declarative
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Procedural MemoryRemember by Doing

• Does not involve conscious thought
• Processes that have been practiced or repeated to
  become automatic
• Driving a car
• Writing
• Typing
• Walking
• Playing piano

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Declarative MemoryInvolves conscious thought

• Includes general knowledge we learn in school.
• Language, people, places, faces, concepts, facts.
• Also includes our life experiences
• Specific events/emotions over time
• 9-11, birthday parties, Christmas

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Rehearsal Strategies

• Rote Rehearsal
• Repetition of material, over and over.
• Used for PROCEDURAL MEMORY ONLY

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Rehearsal Strategies

• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Giving information some kind of meaning
• Creating chunks of reminders
• Used for declarative memory tasks
• Uses mnemonic devices

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Summary

• Procedural memory Rote Rehearsal
• Declarative memory Elaborative Rehearsal

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Mnemonic Devices1. Linking Thoughts

• Definition Using one thought to link two or
  more items together.
• Example
• W Tungsten
• Sn Tin
• Ag Silver
• Fe Iron

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More examples of linking thoughts

• Tenement Housing for poor people
• Jim Crow Laws Separate facilities for
  blacks/whites