Memorization Strategies

The brain has eight essential intelligences. Most people actively use only one or two in study situations. This will obviously severely limit your memory. As you develop your toolbox of study and memory techniques, make sure your incorporate as many of your intelligences as possible. Using many strategies will engage multiple intelligences, for example !hyme " linguistic and musical #raw a picture " visual$spatial Teach someone " interpersonal and linguistic %and physical if you use a lot of movement and hand gestures& !ewriting in your own words' logical, linguistic, and physical %writing is a physical activity and activates that part of the brain& Here are some other strategies to try Acronym (orm a word from the first letter of SCUBA ' *elf'+ontained each word in a list of items. )n a Underwater ,reathing Apparatus test, recall the word and the ideas ATM ' Automated Teller Machine associated with each letter. ROYGBIV ' !ed, )range, -ellow, .reen, ,lue, /ndigo, 0iolet RPG ' !ole 1laying .ame Acrostic 2ike an acronym, but instead, 4very .ood ,oy #oes (ine make'up a sentence using the first %music scale 4.,#(& letter of each item to be memori3ed. !epetition 5rite the information repeatedly Write, Write, Write, Say, Say, Say and say it aloud as you write it. 1oems, *ongs Using a familiar tune, substitute /n 789:, +olumbus *ailed the the information to be learned for )cean ,lue the words of the song6 or, write an original rhyming poem. Mental 1ictures +lose your eyes and visuali3e what This is often used by top athletes you want to remember in a room to visuali3e their performance or place that you;re familiar step'by'step. with...make a visual connection with something familiar to you. )r, visuali3e yourself doing an activity and walk through each step. 4xaggerate /t /f you have a hard time sep rate remembering an item, write it or draw it in a funny way to ad lt exaggerate the part that is giving you trouble. .ood for spelling words. 5eirdness /s the thing weird, funny, unusual, 5ords such as >ulu or ?in@a or out of place<or can you sound weird or different and are imagine where or when it would easier to remember. be= *imilarity or /t is easier to remember a variety !emember this list !ose, car, .rouping of things if you group them iris, truck, tulip, train, daffodil, together. airplane Or (lowers rose, iris, tulip, daffodil 0ehicles car, truck, train, airplane Aeyword Method (irst, select a key word in 4nglish The *panish word BcabinaB means %for foreign that sounds like the foreign word. Bphone booth.B (or the 4nglish

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?ext, imagine an image which involves the key word with the 4nglish meaning of the foreign word.

keyword, you might think of Bcab in a ... .B -ou could then invent an image of a cab trying to fit in a phone booth.