1a.) After reading the articles the three fundamental principals that underlie the use of mnemonics is imagination, association, and location. Imagination is an important principal for mnemonics as it allows for one to visualize the concept that they are trying to correlate with the images one creates in their mind. Association, which has worked in my favor plenty of times when studying for an exam, allows for you to “link” certain aspects of one thing to the desired concept one is attempting to master. Finally, location serves as an important principle of mnemonics as it allows for more than one concept to be remembered, as it explains in the article this principle allows for the placement of information in a certain location without interfering with another choice of location and its unique mnemonics.
1b.) Our text offers chunking and hierarchies as some example of mnemonics at work, and the articles include a couple more. One of them is to “create” an association. There are instances when an association is not obvious, so one has to use imagination to make one. Another mnemonic technique is that of rhyming. For example, …show more content…
It always helps when the association I create is as unrelated to the material as possible, or silly for lack of a better word, the correlation usually only makes sense to me. In biology, for example, we were learning about bonds, and with that, polar and non- polar covalent bonds. In order to distinguish between the two I associated polar covalent bonds (which is unequal sharing of electrons) to polar bears that live on the ice, but because of global warming their homes are disappearing, so they have unequal living situations to humans that do have homes. My professor had initially made a similar association to polar bears, but it just didn’t seem to
1b.) Our text offers chunking and hierarchies as some example of mnemonics at work, and the articles include a couple more. One of them is to “create” an association. There are instances when an association is not obvious, so one has to use imagination to make one. Another mnemonic technique is that of rhyming. For example, …show more content…
It always helps when the association I create is as unrelated to the material as possible, or silly for lack of a better word, the correlation usually only makes sense to me. In biology, for example, we were learning about bonds, and with that, polar and non- polar covalent bonds. In order to distinguish between the two I associated polar covalent bonds (which is unequal sharing of electrons) to polar bears that live on the ice, but because of global warming their homes are disappearing, so they have unequal living situations to humans that do have homes. My professor had initially made a similar association to polar bears, but it just didn’t seem to