Mnemonic devices

Mnemonic devices are techniques a person can use to help them with memory.

Mnemonic devices are techniques used to aid memory retention and recall. They are tools or strategies that can help individuals remember information more effectively by creating associations between new information and pre-existing knowledge. Seven common types of mnemonic device are visualization, acronyms, acrostics, method of loci, story telling, songs and rhymes, and chunking.

What are visual mnemonics? Click to learn why visual mnemonic devices are effective & how to use them to improve memorization & communication of big ideas!

"Thirty days hath September" is so last year. Check out these other clever mnemonic devices to help you remember all sorts of handy facts.

Many students with disabilities and those at risk for educational failure exhibit problems with remembering information covered in school. Suggestions for helping these students improve memory for school content are described in this article. In particular, mnemonic instruction is described and examples are provided of how it can be used to increase school learning and memory of students with learning difficulties.

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Here are the tricks for how to memorize 20 amino acids. MCATs are notoriously difficult and stressful, so if you can help yourself file away the information you need on the aminos in general, like which are polar and nonpolar, which are essential and nonessential, plus their structures and which have electrically charged side chains, you’re that much closer to passing your exam.