You’re a senior in college and you have a huge Chemistry exam coming your way. Studying for an exam can be very difficult to remember every little thing. Memory Mnemonics is a certain way of studying and remembering things. According to Patten “Using this system, verbal memory increased dramatically”. (Patten, 1 ) It tells us that the Mnemonic system is inspiring and growing rapidly at the college level. Mnemonics uses techniques of rhymes, acronyms, diagrams, which help people to remember names, dates, facts, figures, and more. In this paper I plan to use the Mnemonics system to tell if this system actually works. Your memory is stored in the hippocampus, which is the area that they call sea horsed area of your brain, which is in the middle of your brain. When you think about a memory, different parts of your brain become more stimulated to recreate the scene. Some ways that the brain remembers things are using some of your five sense and more, such as color, smell, taste, touch, feelings, and shapes. “People do NOT remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they see, 30% of what they hear, etc…”( Thalheimer,2006).
Your brain is capable of lots of things, one of the great things is being able to read with the words all mixed up. The reason to this is your brain doesn’t read just a letter out of the word by itself, instead it reads the word. So you can have the word “read” spelled like “raed”. Even though it is spelled incorrectly your mind reads it correctly. The only thing that needs to be right in order for your brain to be able to read it is for the first and last letter of the word to be in the right spot. Therefore here is an example… “ ocne tehre was a dog neamd dotite, she was the msot baetuiful wlel behvaed dog I’ve e...
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...es too. Having a healthy diet is a small and easy tool to help with memory Mneomics. Getting your omega -3s are great. All those fatty acids are actually really good for your brain. You can find omega -3s in seafood. If you don’t like seafood you can get it from walnuts, flaxseed oil, kidney and pinto beans, broccoli, and pumpkin seeds. Drinking wine or grape juice can help reduce the risk of getting Alzheimer disease. They say for women drinking one glass a day and for men drinking two glasses a day will help that. Doing all these small things will help keep your memory. Those are all little tricks and tools of memory Mneomics.
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Torgesen (1998) claims that the top reasons students have difficulties with reading is because they have issues correlating letters and sounds in words, or phonological awareness. Many students also have trouble memorizing sight words and many also have an
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