4. Lesson 14: Improving Memory
Objectives
Explain how mnemonic devices including acronyms, acrostics,
narrative chaining help improve memory and retrival
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6. Narrative Chaining
Linking otherwise unrelated items to one another (‘chaining’) to form a
meaningful sequence or story (‘narrative’).
Make up a story to help remember the following words: Dog,
ball, house, petrol, supermarket, party, chairs, box.
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7. The playful dog retrieved a ball that was thrown towards a house. The owner
of the property worked at a petrol station on weekdays and a supermarket on
weekends. His wife was planning a party for their five-year-old son. The
games planned were musical chairs, and Jack in the box.
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9. Acrostics function by taking the first letters of each word in a sentence, or the
first letter of each line in a poem, and using them to create a new word or
sentence.
Acrostics
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10. The classic mnemonic device for remembering planets is another well-known example. Take the first
letters of each planet in order and make a sentence with them as the first letters of each word.
Although slightly modified of late it still works.
My
Very
Excellent
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nachos
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
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