Lesson 14: Improving Memory

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Lesson 13: Forgetting Curve: The Work of Ebbinghaus Exam Question

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Taken from VCAA 2011 Mid Year Exam

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Lesson 14: Improving Memory

Objectives

Explain how mnemonic devices including acronyms, acrostics, narrative chaining help improve memory and retrival

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Watch Crystal’s Podcast on acronyms

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Narrative Chaining

Linking otherwise unrelated items to one another (‘chaining’) to form a meaningful sequence or story (‘narrative’).

Make up a story to help remember the following words: Dog, ball, house, petrol, supermarket, party, chairs, box.

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The playful dog retrieved a ball that was thrown towards a house. The owner of the property worked at a petrol station on weekdays and a supermarket on weekends. His wife was planning a party for their five-year-old son. The games planned were musical chairs, and Jack in the box.

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Acrostics function by taking the first letters of each word in a sentence, or the first letter of each line in a poem, and using them to create a new word or sentence.

Acrostics

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The classic mnemonic device for remembering planets is another well-known example. Take the first letters of each planet in order and make a sentence with them as the first letters of each word. Although slightly modified of late it still works.

MyVeryExcellentMotherJustServedUsNachos

MercuryVenusEarthMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptune

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