1. How do you remember places, events, and people?
Mnemonic Strategies
How do you remember places, events, and people?

2. Mnemonic Strategies Long-term Memory
The storehouse of everything you know about the world and yourself. It is unlimited. Anything you have stored in long-term memory is available for later recall.

3. Mnemonic Strategies Short-term Memory
This is transient working memory. Those things you are paying attention to right now must first pass through this narrow channel. There are two major limitations.

4. Mnemonic Strategies
First, only a small amount of information can be held there. Second, the information can be held for only a short amount of time. It fades if we shift our attention to something else. It can’t hold anything more than 30 seconds and can store only 5 to 9 items.

5. Mnemonic Strategies Mnemonic Device
This is a strategy for organizing information with the only purpose of making it more memorable.

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Chunking: Listen to the following series of numbers. Pencils down!

7. Mnemonic Strategies Chunking
1, 7, 7, 6, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 9, 1, 4, 1, 9, 4, 1, 1, 9, 8, 1, 1, 9, 9, 5
177, 618, 611, 914, 194, 119, 811, or
1776, 1861, 1914, 1941, 1981, 1995

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Chunking
Vincent is preparing a slide with a series of letters. Get ready to chunk. No pencils!

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Chunking
R O F G N I O K L O S N R E T P T A P E L H S U N S A R E L

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Chunking
Anybody want to try?

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Chunking
R O F G N I O K L O S N R E T P T A P E L H S U N S A R E L

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Chunking
R O F G N I O K L O S N R E T P T A P E L H S U N S A R E L

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Chunking
LOOKI NG FOR PATTERNS HELPS US LEARN

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Chunking
Key Word

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Chunking
Key Word
ROY G BIV

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My Very Efficient Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas

17. Mnemonic Strategies Chunking Key Word ROY G BIV
My Very Efficient Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas
Norman Eats Shredded Wheat

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Kings Play Cards On Fuzzy Green Stools

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Kings Play Cards On Fuzzy Green Stools
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

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Kings Play Cards On Fuzzy Green Stools
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Know The Canyon’s History; Study Rocks Made By Time

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King Henry Died Monday Drinking Chocolate Milk (Metric System: Kilometer, Hectometer, Dekameter, Meter, Decimeter, Centimeter, Millimeter)

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King Henry Died Monday Drinking Chocolate Milk (Metric System: Kilometer, Hectometer, Dekameter, Meter, Decimeter, Centimeter, Millimeter)
Sally Miller Hates Eating Okra (Great Lakes left to right)

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Chunking
Key Word
Method of Loci

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Chunking
Key Word
Method of Loci
Cicero

25. Mnemonic Strategies Chunking Key Word Method of Loci Cicero
A Stroll through his village

26. Mnemonic Strategies Chunking Key Word Method of Loci Cicero
A Stroll through his village

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A Stroll through his village

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A Stroll through his village

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A Stroll through his village

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A Stroll through his village
Down Snoqualmie’s Main

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A Stroll through his village
Down Snoqualmie’s Main

32. Mnemonic Strategies Method of Loci Cicero A Stroll through his village
Chunking
Key Word
Method of Loci
Cicero
A Stroll through his village
Down Snoqualmie’s Main Street
Your Home Floor Plan

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Chunking
Key Word
Method of Loci
Peg Word
Numbers : One is a bun; Two is a shoe; Three is a tree; Four is a door; Five is a hive; Six are sticks; Seven is Heaven; Eight is a gate; Nine is a lion; Ten is a hen

36. Mnemonic Strategies Peg Word
Chunking
Key Word
Method of Loci
Peg Word
Numbers: One is a bun; Two is a shoe; Three is a tree; Four is a door; Five is a hive; Six are sticks; Seven is Heaven; Eight is a gate; Nine is a lion; Ten is a hen
Alphabet: Each letter different and based on person’s background

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57. Mnemonic Strategies Peach jam Hot dogs Mustard lettuce
Tomatoes Tooth Paste
Potato chips Hot Tamales [candy]
Salsa Light bulbs