Verbal Mnemonics

Verbal Mnemonics

These memory techniques improve memory by organising information in the LTM by creating links and association using words

• An Acronym is where a word is formed from the initial letters of other words, for example, ROYGBIV is used to remember the colours of the rainbow.
• An Acrostic is a poem or a sentence where the first letter in each word forms the item to be remembered. For example, Old Age Pensioners Love Guiness is used to remember Freuds Psyhcosexual stages (oral…