Mnemonic

spiraling down a internet wormhole.-from wanting to learn more about the cardiovascular system or the story of Heloise and Abelard. My mind works in unexpected ways. I fall in love with words and ideas everyday, from idioms, French slang to medical mnemonics. (despite the fake that I’m a fake etymology connoisseur) I am also passionate about human biology, the rhythm…

The mnemonic F.A.S.T. stands for facial drooping, arm weakness, speech deficit, and tongue. However, there are events known as silent strokes that occur without obvious symptoms, but still have the potential to cause severe memory loss and brain damage (Harvard)…

My essay seeks to establish the importance of Noongar boodjar to the Noongar people. It focuses on explaining the significant attachment that Noongar people possess regarding their place names and why it is deeply rooted in them. Noongar people not only outlived European colonization but also flourished as family groups and obtained assert their rights to their boojar. For Noongar people, the southwest of Western Australia is ngulla booja-our country. Noongar Elder Angus Wallam quoted “White…

Believe it or not, memory affects all aspects of our lives. “Is memory a process or a place? Well the answer to that is not simple. Memory is a process but also has a place in the brain. Perhaps the best definition of memory is that it’s an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.” (Ciccarelli, Harrigan, Fritzley. (2010) pg. 230) We have insane amounts of memory stored inside our brains…

certain information. A perfect example, is overlooking the strengths for the medications. I was able to write down all information of the medication, the timing, diagnosis and history. I think in this instance I should possibly write down an acronym or mnemonic to ensure I cover each aspect, such as Dx-MDFTH (disease/diagnosis – medication, dosage, form, timing, history). It seemed that this oversight was also done with allergies. In retail pharmacy it is common practice to ask for known…

According to Feldman memory is the process by which we encode, store and retrieve information. In recognizing that memory takes in these gives us a better understanding why I remember the name of my pet at 4 years old and why I cannot remember where I put my reading glasses at 55 years old. Another definition comes into play is encoding which is the first stage in remembering something. Next stage is storage which is information stored for future use and final stage is retrieval which is the…

Experiment 1A and 1B ‘s study was determined using video game questionnaires, enumeration tasks and the Mnemonic Similarity Task (MST). (Clemenson & Stark, 2015) The questionnaire assed the type of gamer a person was, how much the person spends playing games, how the person experiences games, if the gamer was competitive, and finally, it assed their performance…

Phones have hijacked our minds, “by design, they grab and hold our attention in a way natural objects never could.” Nicholas Carr concurs with this statement in his article: “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds,” he uses description, literal language and credible sources to argue how smartphones take our attention . Carr uses description to persuade readers the many ways our cellular device have “Hijacked Our Mind.” These device have an “Extraordinary usefulness(1)” which “Gives them an…

saying, 'Go northwest.'" The seamstress would hang the quilts in full view one at a time, allowing the slaves to reinforce their memory of the pattern and its associated meaning. When slaves made their escape, they used their memory of the quilts as a mnemonic device to guide them safely along their…

My name is student X. I sincerely appreciate the writing course, especially now that it is almost complete. I have learned a lot, especially in terms of critical thinking, analysis, comparative assessment, rhetorical techniques, thorough editing of punctuation, format, sentence structure and patience in formulating one edited draft into another. The writing course has helped me to express my thoughts and ideas in an organized, professional and formal manner. Moreover, I have also learned to…