Author Question: Develop some mnemonics for the material for this section of the course (e.g., a mnemonic to remember ... (Read 55 times)

saraeharris · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Develop some mnemonics for the material for this section of the course (e.g., a mnemonic to remember the seven sins of memory).

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Imagine a world in which encoding in long-term memory was not primarily semantic, but rather was visual or tactile. What might subjective organization in free recall be like in such cases?

What will be an ideal response?

epscape · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Certain (categorical clustering), intelligent (interactive images) people (peg-word) may (method of loci) always (acronym) avoid (acrostic) kilts (keyword).

To (transience) actually (absent-mindedness) be (blocking) mystifying (misattribution) suggest (suggestibility) bizarre (bias) possibilities (persistence).

Answer to Question 2

Rather than recalling items in meaning-based categories, they might be recalled by color or shape or by whether they are soft of hard to the touch.