Mnemonic devices are specific devices to help memorize lists of words (Best, 2003 as cited in Sternberg, 2006). The purpose of using mnemonic devices is to add meaning to a list of items that previously may not have had any meaning. For example, one technique of mnemonic device is the use of interactive images in which words in the list are associated with the items in the list. Fpr instance, the word conjure images of the objects. For example, if one need s to remember a list with "unrelated words such as an aardvark, table, pencil, book, radio, Kansa, rain, electricity and stone and mirror", they could be remembered by generating interactive associations (Sternberg, 2006). As he explains, the person could "imagine the aardvark with a pencil in its claws and writing in a book, with rain pouring over Kansa (i.e., pictured on a map), that lands on a radio that is sitting on a stone, which generates electricity reflected in a mirror" (p. ...
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This solution describes the technique of mnemonics used in memory recall and retrieval. It discusses hou mnemonic devices help to improve memory.
... able to distinguish the stimulus from other stimuli makes it ... to make an association between stimulus and response ... and associations to perform verbal memory tasks ...
... 1. Trace the memory system from stimuli into long-term ... On the other hand, verbal or speaking aloud when ... studies can enhance their auditory memory, where recall ...
... In our everyday life very many stimuli affect our experience ... a broad framework within which most of the memory studies-conventional verbal learning and ...
... procedure in which each of several stimuli (usually verbal... methods of psychological research in verbal learning ... in certain studies of human MEMORY, consisting of ...
... order, regardless of how the stimuli were originally ... Learning and memory: basic principles, processes, and ... terms of learning styles (including verbal and visual ...
... (b) Non-verbal factors -Working ... to mnemonic devices, 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. ... while our brains evolved to code and interpret stimuli such as ...
... attend to any of the multiple stimuli in our ... link information that are visual, spatial, verbal and chronological ... create meaning/make sense of the memory as in ...
... their environments by a stimulus array held in a short-term memory buffer. ... When humans are presented with complex stimuli that include verbal cues, the ...
