Question

Provide specific examples of how you would use each of these memory enhancement techniques to learn material for a class: Chunking, Mnemonics, Hierarchies, Distributed Practice, and Making Information Personally Relevant.

Answer 1

Chunking: chunking refers to grouping chunks of information to remember them better. For class, in case there are facts that are difficult to remember, they can be clubbed together and a little additional information can be added to make a story out of them which will be easier to remember.

Mnemonics: Mnemonics include techniques that can be used to remember something better. For class, all the information to be remembered can be coded in the form of acronym or made into rhyming sentences which would be easier to remember as poems.

Hierarchies: For information that involves content which can be arranged based on a parameter, this method can be used. Keeping a parameter in mind, all the facts can be arranged. For example, years and events can be arranged in chronological order which would be easy to remember.

Distributed practice: when there are difficult facts to remember, they can be made into a list and can be studied at specific intervals of time.

Making Information personally relevant: when there is a description of an event, it can be easily remembered by relating it to our personal life.