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Now let’s test your recall.
Memory Recall
Let’s see if you can remember the 10 digits from the story.
1.
You need to get out of bed for work. What time is it?
2.
What is it that you put on before you get out of bed?
3.
You are dressing and you go to your closet and pull out?
4.
Cooking up some breakfast, you cook up?
5.
To eat you need to sit down. You end up sitting down on a?
Have you got it?
Try remembering the numbers again now to make sure that you have
the mnemonic.
Not only can you remember the numbers, but if you remember the
‘story’ about the numbers, you’ll also be able to remember the
numbers tomorrow too.
By making sense of information, the brain is able to remember it more
easily. Hopefully you were successful with this exercise and can see
the power that mnemonic devices allow you. Using a story is only one
of the many mnemonics available to remember ‘meaningless’
information.
It is important to note that the mnemonics are only as good as the
effort you put into them. In this case the ‘story’ has to mean something
for you. If you don’t work, are a vegetarian or don’t own slippers, this
story will seem a little out of context for you. Make sure your
mnemonics make sense to you when you develop them.
Types of mnemonic devices
There are many mnemonic devices that people use everyday. The
most effective ones for studying are described here. These mnemonic
devices that we will be discussing in this chapter are broken into two
groups:
Devices that will help you focus on organizing information into
smaller chunks, and
Devices that will help you attach meaning to otherwise
‘meaningless’ information.
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