Mnemonics for study (2nd ed.) (Study Skills)

Tellingly, however, the group that saw all this in a picture performed not only significantly better than the group using their own method, but also significantly better than the group given the keywords and iconic images but not shown the illustration or given any description of it (they were simply told to “form a picture in your mind” drawing al

the fact that it is easier to derive the keyword from the target word (go from górod ), than to derive the target word from the keyword (górod from go).

college students applied the strategy to a 1,800-word passage about historical theories of human intelligence.

building understanding requires time, and in the initial stages there is a lot that needs to be firmly tamped into your brain, before you truly, deeply, understand

The text involved two sub-topics: measurement of intelligence, and structure of intelligence.

this is so, it may be that the place method is best used on expository texts, the link method on narratives, and the pegword method on static visual descriptions.

“famous psychologists who contributed to the measurement of intelligence”. In other words, it is the concept of measurement of intelligence that will be the cue, and it is the link between this concept and its keyword that you’d need to practice (as well, of course, as the image linked to

you can connect the separate passages to existing knowledge (that’s why experts are much less prone to interference when acquiring new information). However,

a similar vein, a study involving 8th-grade students9 demonstrated the effectiveness of this kind of mnemonic for remembering the attributes of minerals. The students were given information about nine different minerals, and their attributes on three dimensions: hard/soft, pale/dark, home use/industrial use. Those in the mnemonic condition were giv

Similarly, when you’re constructing a multi-item mnemonic, you should give some thought to what the retrieval cue is likely to be. In the study just described, for example, it was assumed the theorists’ names (Binet, Spearman, etc) would be given. The student would then retrieve the keyword from the name, and the keyword would trigger the associate