Goal: Learn about mnemonic strategies andcompare their effectiveness in real world situations.
1. Usingone of the mnemonic strategies listed below, create a mnemonic device to helpremember specific material (e.g., problems with eyewitness testimony) taught inthis course or material from Cognitive Processes B ([last semester] e.g.;pathways of sound processing from the ear to the language areas).
a) Puttingthe Information into Rhyme
b) Settingthe Information to Music (you can create and post a clip!)
c) Acrostics
d) Acronyms
e) KeywordVisualization
f) Chunking
g) Methodof Loci
h) PegwordMethod
i) Chaining(mnemonic linking method)
See the article Mnemonic Strategies:Helping Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities RememberImportant Information (Bakken, 2017) on Moodle for a description of some ofthese strategies. Other resources (of the many available, feel free to search):
https://blog.brookespublishing.com/5-mnemonic-strategies-to-help-students-succeed-in-school/
https://www.verywellhealth.com/memory-tip-1-keyword-mnemonics-98466
http://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/mnemonics.htm
https://www.verywellhealth.com/keyword-mnemonics-to-improve-ability-to-memorize-facts-98699
2. Pleaseexplain why the method you chose is the best (relative to the others in thelist) for the type of information that you have chosen to teach [up to 500words].
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