How to Memorize & Remember - Study Tips - Mnemonic Devices

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In this episode, we learn about MNEMONICS. This is another word for memory aids - tools you can use to improve your memory and recall. This is one of the most important aspects of being a great student - remembering what you are trying to learn!

One of the first mnemonics was the “method of loci,” also known as the “Mind Palace.” This involves associating what you want to remember with a particular place (or a pathway).

Other mnemonic devices include making acronyms, or making sentences out of the first letters of the words you need to memorize.

Do you have a favourite mnemonic device you’ve found especially helpful? Let us know what are your favourite study tips in the comments!
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[channalbert]

In Astronomy there's a stellar classification system called Morgan–Keenan. It divides stars into the following spectral classes (from hottest to coolest): O, B, A, F, G, K and M. Everybody learns it by remembering the sentence "Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me"...

It really works. It sounds so creepy that not even in a million years I'd forget.

[jalob_s]

I remember in my Anatomy & Physiology class my teacher showed us a mnemonic in our textbook for memorizing the carpal bones. It went, "Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle." She made a fuss about how inappropriate it was and gave us an alternative that was more normal sounding, but I only remembered the first one

[markjones]

Thirty days hath September....
All the rest I can't remember!

[Socratica]

Socratica Friends, was school easy for you...until suddenly it wasn't? We wrote this book for you.

[jessikacornelio]

i love this, this lady is to funny. I had to pause the video and laugh when she mention about pluto. I cant with her. this video was very helpful. thank you

[jessmoccelini]

Very good video!
We all can learn, we just need to find a nice way to make our brains work better!

[BensLab]

The sound of music had the do re mi song. That was an auditory mnemonic. Also, there is a mnemonic for teaching directions on a compass: Never Eat Soggy WeetBix. That's an Australian cereal. Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit; that was used to teach me notes on the piano. Kings Play Chess Or Fight; I learnt that in University in first yeat biology to teach us the order of classification: Kingdom, Phyla etc. I'll shut up now.

[martinnogales]

I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your advice and clarified those points to understand clearly the palace memory, that's was remarkable, greetings from Bolivia

[juampitrento]

when I was a student the math teacher teach us this trigonometric acronym SORCARTOA stands for Sinus = oposite angle divided radius or hypothenuse, cosine = adjacent angle divided radius or hypothenuse, tangent= oposite angle divided adjacent angle

[oportaldaciencia]

Thank you so much for the video, Liliana! I'd love to see a video about the Feynman Technique :)

[pathrst]

Thanks for these videos. I am using them to help teach my middle school Study Skills course. This is good stuff.

[ky]

for me they best way to memories something goes in 3 different ways: if it has a logicial reasoning behind it, try to fully understand it; if you have to rememberize something abstract (for example: dual space in maths) try to visualize it with a concrete trivial example(once you are familiar with the concept, get rid of visualization, or otherwise it will preventing you from understanding any further/deeper concepts); if you have to remember things like first 20digits of pi, try to stimulating your brain with different input simultaneously: read it aloud/using tts and writing it on paper at the same time and repeat it for several times!(pi =

find a comfortable place also helped alot!!!

[persianhenry]

Thank you for sharing, I recently came across some of these very cool acronyms from the TV show The Mentalist.

7 levels of Taxonomy,

Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach (Kingdom, Phyla, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)

Then the word "Because" - (Big, Elephants, Can, Always, Understand, Small, Elephants)

[mortkebab]

I would rather keep the Method of Loci for remembering a speech that i am going to deliver only once, since I can reuse the same "palace" again in future. Because the associations would fade after I give the speech (because I'm not rehearsing them) then the palace will be fresh for remembering the next speech, whenever that is.

For permanently remembering assorted facts such as vocabulary and terminology I use Elon Musk's method, of finding something about the word or thing that resembles something I already know. Then follow with spaced repetition as often as necessary.

[physicaltherapyextends]

This is great! Love mnemonics! Thanks for the idea..been doing my own for my vlog

[animeshdas]

Thank you so much...A great way to memorise indeed....The video is so helpful.... Waiting for more!!!

[MarcondMarchi]

Congrats on your great work! And with the nine pumpkins, a solitary tear dropped for Pluto :D Nice touch!

[hamaralsilva]

Ok, this one is in Portuguese, but it works for me to remember the periodic table: Hoje Li Na Casa de Roberto Coisas Francesas (H Li Na K Rb Cs Fr - the first column of the periodic table!). This means "Today I read french things at Robert's house" in English.

[ascrein]

Thank you. I think understand how memory aids work now. Thank you.

[unknowntexan]

I teach mnemonics. If you use a method and it works, you did it right. The loci, however, is generally the most powerful.