2. Remember the following 10 items in the
correct order so that If I ask you what was word
three, you would remember it.
Watch
Missile
Muffler
Candy
Tomato
Fingernail
Scarf
Disease
Elephant
Pillar
3. Raise your hand as soon as you recognize the
music and can identify how it is connected to
you.
How do you remember this?
What is the name of the actual song?
Do you remember any Peanuts trivia?
4. A collection of neural networks formed
through repetition from past experiences or
events in one’s life.
What are some of your earliest memories?
5. The ability to access the neural networks in order
to perform a task or skill. Example recalling
multiplication facts such as 6 x 7, or the muscle
memory of how to hit a backhand tennis shot.
6. A mnemonic device used to recall words or
events in their correct order.
First memorize the peg words that rhyme with
the numbers 1-10.
9. Memorize the following items in their correct
order using the peg method.
Motorcycle
Cricket
Silver dollars
Dart
Baseball Bat
Doughnut
Helmet
Emeralds
Soap Bubbles
Lawn mower
10. So, Peg,
did it
come
back to
you?
What were your images?
1-bun- motorcycle
2-shoe-cricket
3-tree- silver dollars
4-door-dart
5-hive-baseball bat
6-sticks- doughnut
7-heaven-helmet
8-gate-emeralds
9-vine-soap bubbles
10-hen-lawnmower
14. The Loci Method.
The loci method is another mnemonic device
that uses a template of known locations to
place words on.
Use visualization to see the “item” to memorize
on that particular location. Don’t be afraid to
C.O.W.
5 rooms and 5 locations in these rooms is
enough to remember 25 words.
10 rooms + 10 locations = 100 words!
17. Do Not Write these words down.
Instead link them to your locations.
My first room was a bedroom and the location is my pillow.
I put a diaper on my pillow
Visualize placing the diaper at your first location.
20. If the information is emotionally relevant the
information may be stored in the hippocampus.
This is the short term memory holding area.
21. Emotion aids a memory. That is why we suggested
C.O.W.
Since there can be a lot of emotion with something that has
never been experienced before, firsts become more easily
recalled. This is called the primacy effect.
22.
23. Recall the first and last words from our peg method.
Recall what was in location number one and twenty
five for the loci method.
24. It is difficult to eat a burrito in one bite.
Consider the metaphor!
25. By breaking study sessions into several smaller units
rather than one long session, what are we doing?
More beginnings and endings create more primacy
and recency!
28. Memories are broken up into varies elements
associated with the information such as visual,
auditory, and other senses and delivered around
the cerebrum. This creates multiple pathways to
the information.
29. Because long term memories are stored throughout the
cerebrum this is why a smell or sound or visual clue can
stimulate and initiate the recall of a memory.
There are virtually many access points throughout the
brain to recall an event or information needed to process
something.
So you smell cookies and it triggers a host of memories
about going to grandma’s house.
I say apple and you have a working/functional memory
about what apples look like, taste, where they grow, how
good they are for you, etc.
31. Practice and repetition then strengthens the
pathways and makes access (recall) easier.
This is why writing something down makes it
easier to remember than just reading
something, or watching something. Some
students highlight information in their
textbooks which is less effective than physically
taking notes.
32. We have used the mnemonic devices of the peg
method, loci method, and linked emotions to first and
last events.
Acronyms can also be utilized to help retain
information.
34. M.A.D.D.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
S.A.D.D.
Students Against Destructive Decisions
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally.
Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction (from left to
right)
My very excellent mother just served us nachos. (used to be nine pizzas.)
Mars Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
Never Eat Soggy Waffles
Clockwise on Compass
D.A.M.
Mothers Against Dyslexia
35.
36. Substitution Memory Method
Substitute a word or phrase that
sounds like the word or term you
want to memorize.
Use the substitution word to create a
visual that helps to remember the
definition of the term.
37. Turlough means a winter pond.
Turlough sounds like Turtle: I see a turtle frozen
in the ice of a pond during winter.
Piet means chatterbox. I see a person putting a
piece of pie into a person’s mouth who won’t
shut up.
Palmary means outstanding. I visualize two
people slapping palms (high five)when they
accomplish something outstanding.
Editor's Notes
Unit 4 Memory and Performance
So… How good is your memory? Let’s try a simple test of it. Without writing anything down, see if you can memorize the following list of words in their correct order.
What is memory?
The term "memory" encompasses a range of complex cognitive phenomena, which allow us to virtually go back to events and facts that happened in the past. The components constituting memory as a cognitive process are orientation/focusing, perception, encoding, storage, and retrieval. Here is a cognitive definition of memory:
Definition of recall
Peg method
Unit 4 Memory and Performance
Example of the peg method if the first word was motorcycle. Peg the bun to the motorcycle
Do not write these down!
Remember the more crazy outrageous and wild they are, the more likely you can recall them.
Lawnmower was number ten on the list. You needed to couple it with hen.
Hen-lawnmower
Peg is great for up to 10 items, what about more?
Lets go through the mental images for this example of the loci method.Remember, you can place more than one object in a room!
In your journal, write down 5 rooms with 5 locations each.
word #1 is diaper
Short-term memory - closely related to "working" memory, occurs in the prefrontal cortex. It stores information for a very short time (from a few seconds up to one minute) and its capacity is limited to about 7 items. The task short-term memory performs is to keep entering Information in mind for a short time before either dismissing it or transferring it to long-term memory.
As incoming information is processed it travels from the cerebrum to the limbic system for an emotional response. Here is where the hippocampus comes into play.
Primacy and Recency EffectsExample: I remember my first official little league baseball practice.
Due to the fact that something has just happened we also tend to remember our lasts if it has emotional value. This is called the recency effect.
Today’s primary and recency effects.Motorcycle and hen (five is baseball bat)Diaper and turtle (12 is swimsuit)
Implications for learning
If the memory is rehearsed (repetition) it becomes part of your life it can become part of long term memory.
This process can take a while as neurons and their networks need to initiate and turn on genes in the cell to manufacture proteins that change the response of the cell to other neurons.
More pathways equals stronger memories. If you can create more neural networks of information through active processing and orchestrated immersion into a topic.
More pathways equals stronger memories. If you can create more neural networks of information through active processing and orchestrated immersion into a topic.
Here are some additional examples.
Here are some additional examples.
How about this?
You can use the substitution method for many different terms or concepts that you want to remember.Example of old English vocabulary words.
