Mental imagery and pictures have been proven to significantly assist memory. The power of mental imagery is due to its ability to organize information that is initially unorganized into specific locations. A strategy, which entails both organization of information into specific locations and mental imagery, is the Method of Loci.
According to Cicero, it was Simonides a Greek Poet who was the first to recognize the use of mental imagery for memory. While he briefly ducked away from a banquet at which he was entertaining at, the building caved in. The bodies of the guests were so badly crushed that the recognition of these victims was impossible. Simonides then discovered that he could remember the faces and clothing of his guests in various locations around the room, therefore giving him the ability to recognize the corpses of the guests. Images are generally easier to remember compared to verbal thoughts, …show more content…
This time, round I got 14 words and my friend got 13. In order to carry out the Method of Loci, one is to think of a familiar environment. My friend and I both being boarders chose the boarding house, this was a good location to use as there are many rooms, which corresponded with the words, for example, we both unknowingly associated the word disease with the clinic. As the words didn’t need to be recalled in a specific order I placed the words along a path that I am very familiar with. I placed them along my morning routine, starting with the word yawn in my bed. As I walked along my path I created an association with each step of my morning routine to one of the words on the list. Although using a routine does help it has been shown to be more useful if you place the images of the words into different rooms in a building. This way you are able to revisit those words whenever and in whatever order by entering the room in which it is
According to Cicero, it was Simonides a Greek Poet who was the first to recognize the use of mental imagery for memory. While he briefly ducked away from a banquet at which he was entertaining at, the building caved in. The bodies of the guests were so badly crushed that the recognition of these victims was impossible. Simonides then discovered that he could remember the faces and clothing of his guests in various locations around the room, therefore giving him the ability to recognize the corpses of the guests. Images are generally easier to remember compared to verbal thoughts, …show more content…
This time, round I got 14 words and my friend got 13. In order to carry out the Method of Loci, one is to think of a familiar environment. My friend and I both being boarders chose the boarding house, this was a good location to use as there are many rooms, which corresponded with the words, for example, we both unknowingly associated the word disease with the clinic. As the words didn’t need to be recalled in a specific order I placed the words along a path that I am very familiar with. I placed them along my morning routine, starting with the word yawn in my bed. As I walked along my path I created an association with each step of my morning routine to one of the words on the list. Although using a routine does help it has been shown to be more useful if you place the images of the words into different rooms in a building. This way you are able to revisit those words whenever and in whatever order by entering the room in which it is