Goal: Learn about mnemonic strategies and compare their effectiveness in real world situations.
- Using one of the mnemonic strategies listed below, create a mnemonic device to help remember specific material (e.g., problems with eyewitness testimony) taught in this course or material from Cognitive Processes B ([last semester] e.g.; pathways of sound processing from the ear to the language areas).
- a) Putting the Information into Rhyme
- b) Setting the Information to Music (you can create and post a clip!)
- c) Acrostics
- d) Acronyms
- e) Keyword Visualization
- f) Chunking
- g) Method of Loci
- h) Pegword Method
- i) Chaining (mnemonic linking method)
See the article Mnemonic Strategies: Helping Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Remember Important Information (Bakken, 2017) on Moodle for a description of some of these strategies. Other resources (of the many available, feel free to search):
https://www.verywellhealth.com/memory-tip-1-keyword-mnemonics-98466
http://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/mnemonics.htm
https://www.verywellhealth.com/keyword-mnemonics-to-improve-ability-to-memorize-facts-98699
- Please explain why the method you chose is the best (relative to the others in the list) for the type of information that you have chosen to teach [up to 500 words].