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Lesson 14: Improving Memory
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Lesson 13: Forgetting Curve: The Work of Ebbinghaus Exam Question
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Taken from VCAA 2011 Mid Year Exam
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Lesson 14: Improving Memory
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Explain how mnemonic devices including acronyms, acrostics, narrative chaining help improve memory and retrival
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Watch Crystal’s Podcast on acronyms
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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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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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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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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.
MyVeryExcellentMotherJustServedUsNachos
MercuryVenusEarthMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptune
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