1. What three fundamental principles underlie the use of mnemonics?
a. Mnemonics are techniques for repackaging information,
helping your brain to store it safely and find again when you
need it. The three fundamental principles that go into
mnemonics are imagination, association, and location.
Imagination is used to create images that are vivid, engaging,
and rich enough to jog your memory. Association makes the
most of your brain's habit of linking ideas. Location is the use of
your memories in real-world places to help you remember new
material.
2. Describe three specific mnemonic techniques that are not described
in the text.
a. There are many mnemonic techniques that are used to help
with memory and how to improve the memory. A couple to be
explained are image mnemonics, model mnemonics, and peg
method mnemonics. In image mnemonics, a visual image is
used that encodes data to make it easier to memorize what you
need to remember. In a model mnemonic, a drawing or some
representation is constructed to help with the understanding
to recall the information. The peg method was the most
interesting to me because it uses mental association between
two concrete objects in a one-tone fashion that later turns into
to-be-remembered information. You are basically tying one
memory to another to remember one specific memory.
3. List your three memory problems and show how one of the three
mnemonic devices described above can be applied to one of your
memory problems.
a. I feel like I have many memory problems. One that I often
struggle with is remembering important due dates and when I
have to get things done, so I have to write them down and make
lists. This would be considered note organization mnemonics.
