mnemonic device

(noun)

Any specific learning technique that aids information retention.

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Examples of mnemonic device in the following topics:

  • Strategies for Improving Memory Quality and Duration

    • An example of a mnemonic device would be if a child remembered how to spell GEOGRAPHY with the saying "George Eagle's Old Grandmother Rode A Pig Home Yesterday."
    • Another way to improve memory is through the use of a mnemonic device.
    • A mnemonic device is a learning technique that aids learning, usually through association.
    • Mood congruence is a possible mnemonic device, but one that is not easily employed.
    • Spaced practice is a better mnemonic strategy than massed practice.

  • One-Time Contributions and Feedback

    • An educator using Boundless can suggest tips or heuristics they use in the classroom, such as a certain mnemonic device, be included in our content to help students learn.

  • Circumventricular Organs

    • A useful mnemonic device for remembering this aspect of their function, though not the source of the name, is that they allow factors to circumvent' the blood-brain barrier.

  • Brief Overview of Cranial Nerves

    • There are many mnemonic devices to remember the cranial nerves.

  • Introduction to Memory Encoding

    • An example of a mnemonic is remembering the colors of the rainbow by the name Roy G.
    • Chunking and mnemonics (discussed below) aid in semantic encoding; sometimes, deep processing and optimal retrieval occurs.
    • Mnemonic devices, sometimes simply called mnemonics, are one way to help encode simple material into memory.
    • A mnemonic is any organization technique that can be used to help remember something.
    • Another type of mnemonic is an acronym, in which a person shortens a list of words to their initial letters to reduce their memory load.

  • Cognitive Development in Adolescence

    • Adolescents are more aware of their own thought processes and can use mnemonic devices and other strategies to think more efficiently.

  • Long-Term Memory

    • Cognitive strategies are more task-specific, and often refer to "direct manipulation of the learning material itself (Brown, 1987). " Examples of cognitive strategies are note-taking, repetition, guessing meaning from context, or using mnemonic devices.

  • A Useful Mnemonic Rule

    • Although this modest mnemonic does not make explicit use of molecular orbitals, more rigorous methods that are founded on the characteristics of such orbitals have provided important insight into these reactions.

  • A Useful Mnemonic for Regioselectivity

    • However, there is a simple mnemonic trick that will predict regioselectivity in many cases.
    • Always remember, this is just a mnemonic trick, most Diels-Alder reactions are concerted and do not proceed through a diradical intermediate.

  • Sine, Cosine, and Tangent

    • The mnemonic SohCahToa can be used to solve for the length of a side of a right triangle.
    • A common mnemonic for remembering these relationships is SohCahToa, formed from the first letters of “Sine is opposite over hypotenuse (Soh), Cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse (Cah), Tangent is opposite over adjacent (Toa).”
    • Remembering the mnemonic, "SohCahToa", the sides given are opposite and adjacent or "o" and "a", which would use "T", meaning the tangent trigonometric function.
    • Remembering the mnemonic, "SohCahToa", the sides given are the hypotenuse and opposite or "h" and "o", which would use "S" or the sine trigonometric function.