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Summary of Mnemonic Devices
There are many mnemonic devices available to help people remember.
The most effective ones have been summarized below:
1.
Clustering: Organizing and grouping similar items together will
help you to remember information. Research shows that it can
improve your retention by up to 4 times.
2.
Acronyms:
Each letter of a word is used to help recall
information. If you wanted to remember to pick up butter, eggs,
milk and alfalfa sprouts, you would use the word BEAM (Bread,
Eggs, Alfalfa sprouts and Milk).
3.
Acrostics: The first letter of each word o® rhyme of a story can
be used to help your recall. For example if you wanted to
remember each of the planets in the solar system in sequence, you
could remember “Men Very Easily Make Jugs
Serve Useful
Nocturnal Purposes” (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto)
4.
Interactive imagery: Is simply a mini movie in your head of
‘interactive images’ to help with the memorization process.
Interactive images are also used with other mnemonic systems.
5.
Pegword system: This mnemonic device uses familiar information
to ‘peg’ new information that you want to learn.
6.
Location method: The location method uses familiar physical
locations to help the student recall information they want to learn.
7.
Keyword system: Normally used to remember foreign words.
Foreign words are linked to existing English words to help recall.
Clustering
Clustering is a technique that we may already do without thinking
about it. This is a technique whereby items of similar nature are
grouped together to help recall. For example, when remembering a
shopping list, rather than trying to remember each item individually,
the items are clustered into groups. By simple organizing information
into meaningful groups we are better able to remember it. Items such
as apples, oranges, peaches, milk, cream, and yoghurt could be
clustered into groups of fruits and milk products.
The aim with clustering is that by remembering the ‘cluster’ or
grouping, you will be prompted to remember the items themselves. By
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