Helpful Memory Aids for Memorization
For millenia, memory techniques have evolved in both how they are
used, and how they are learned by people. We all know that the process of remembering information is called "mnemonics". We also know
that mnemonics isn’t similar to magic tricks but due to its proven efficiency, it’s considered a technique pertaining to memorization.
If you haven't realized yet how our memory works, a
person’s memory effectively functions based on how it
associates objects and information. But of course, what we need to
practice at is how we focus on things and eventually associate or link
them with other information that enables
us to remember what we need to
remember.
One way to remember things
easily is to rhyme words. How do you think we’re able to
carry riddles and rhymes during our nursery years in school up to the
later years of our lives? Just reading this question alone makes you
remember one or two nursery rhymes you’ve learned, right?
This also answers how toddlers are able to cope with what they learn in
school at this very early stage of their lives. This is also the very
reason why rhymes are considered as common memory aids.
Another effective memory technique
is the use of initials or the first letter of the word. For example,
for a group of items, you can take each first letter and make a word
out of it. Remember ROY G. BIV? If you do, you'd know right
away that this is not a name of a person but it stands for the seven
colors of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and
Violet. Notice how you have easily recognized the initials? Now
you’re nodding.
You need not to make a name always out of the initials from a set of
items. You can make a word or anything which can easily help you
recognize the words equivalent to items. But in some cases, there might
be too little number of vowels versus the consonants. Let’s
have the items pasta, rye, fish, cheese and table. Together they look
like this: PRFCT. We can add the letter E in between the initials to
make it a word; in this case, it can be read now as PERFECT. Of course,
when you remember the word PERFECT, you’d easily recognize
which item stands for each consonant. Simple? Yes.
There are many other ways you can learn on how to enhance your memory skills.
Interesting and effective memorization techniques can be found
at memory-improvement-techniques.com.
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