MEMORY AIDS
Memory aids have been developed and are often used in education. These are cues, mind maps, and imagery.
Cues
- Help retrieve information from the LTM and overcome accessibility problems.
- Cues can trigger memories through the senses eg - a smell
- Formal use - Police provides verbal/visual cues to reconstruct crimes. They use cues to help trigger witnesses' memories.
- Informal use - Such as 'retracing steps' to remember where you left something
- In education - Could give hints, such as the first letter of the word or visual cues.
Mind Mapping
- Reflects how the brain is organised
- Created by Buzan in the 1960's
Imagery
- We remember things better when it is attached to an image. This is as we dual encode this information so we can recall it easily. This means that it is remembered acoustically and visually.
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