Define mnemonics? Suggest a plan to improve your own memory.
Answers
Answer:
the study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory.
Explanation:
1. Sleep after learning (consolidate)
Right after you learn or do something, it’s fresh in your memory and you can remember it fairly vividly. With the passage of time, as you do/read/learn more things, memories slowly decay, and become less and less accurate approximations. In addition, new memories are fragile and can easily be forgotten.
So how do you strengthen memories for recently learned things and protect new memories? We know that consolidation (both system and synaptic) takes place on a neural level without us doing anything (or at least being aware of it), and this does strengthen our memories. However, there are things we can do to considerably improve the consolidation process. You might be surprised to learn that one of them is sleep
Mnemonics is an instructional strategy specially designed to help students remember complex information.
Explanation:
Mnemonics uses visual or acoustic cues or stimuli to remember difficult terms, large series of words, or complex information. It is a memory device which facilitates the brain to perform the memory processes like encoding, storing and retrieval in a better way.
Mnemonics are done with tools or devices like the keyword method or the method of loci. It is organized by chunking, minimizing interference, and by providing retrieval cues.
Plan to improve memory
- Improve concentration and focus attention
- Practice retrieval and recall methods
- Elaborating and Rehearsal helps to reduce interference of memories
- Improving consolidation of memory
- Cramming of information should be avoided
- Structuring and organizing the information
- Usage of mnemonic devices
- Visualizing the concepts
- Relating new information with previously acquired knowledge
- Good sleep patterns, well-balanced nutrition and healthy lifestyle