PSYA1 Memory Improvement methods
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- Created on: 13-04-15 20:59
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- memory improvement methods psychology
- method of loci
- Requires you to associate what will be learned with a specific place (rooms in a house) or image so items are double encoded
- organisation hierachies
- I'm in my house, which is in Bath, which is in England, which is in Great Britain
- encoding specificity principle
- memory is most effective when information available at encoding is also present at retrieval
- Acronyms
- where a word is formed using the initial letter of other words e.g. OMG, NASA
- Acrostics
- Using the first letter of each word to create a poem or sentence e.g Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vein
- peg words
- Good for memorising ordered list of words through visual association.
- method of loci
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