*This is the homework sheet for the Memory chapter. You are to come up with 3 (THREE) memory tricks of your own–what we call mnemonic strategies–for remembering vocabulary, facts, theories, etc., specifically for this PSY 166 course (from any chapter so far). Use the descriptions of elaborative rehearsal, deep rehearsal and mnemonics to aid you. Please DO NOT WRITE THAT YOU WILL REPEAT/REREAD SOMETHING OVER & OVER AS YOUR ANSWER. Visual or artistic students may use image mnemonics drawing a scene or using emojis to represent a psychology term or definition. If you draw on paper, please describe in words what your image/scene represents, don’t just upload the drawing without explanation. I cannot read your minds and don’t usually know what emoji’s mean.
*Examples of non-psychology mnemonics you may have seen in past classes:
For order of operations for math: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, and Subtract aka PEMDASand “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” (expression/word mnemonic); we can make a song—“ABC song” for alphabet learning (music mnemonic); or pair info with silly images, such as drawing “a sad, depressed bat” (a combination image & word mnemonic) to remember the depressant drugs-Barbiturates, Alcohol, and Tranquilizers.
*YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO COME UP WITH 3 ORIGINAL DIFFERENT CONCRETE STRATEGIESFOR PSYCHOLOGY TERMS. It may be for a single term/theory/fact: examples of psychology mnemonics include to remember the 5 factors from the Five Factor Model “Openness to Experience” “Conscientiousness” “Extraversion” “Agreeableness” and “Neuroticism” a student might use—1) OCEAN; 2) CANOE; 3) Always Order Extra Nacho Cheese (all word/expression mnemonics)
*OR, you may have one type of mnemonic strategy that you apply to 3 different terms: to remember the four lobes of the brain “Frontal” “Parietal” “Temporal” and “Occipital” a student may use 1) “Freud’s Pants Tore Off”; 2) to remember the 4 goals of Psychology, “Describe” “Explain” “Predict” and “Control Behavior”, a student might use “Don’t Exit Pre Credits Babe” or “Don’t Eat Peanut Cookies, Boys”; 3) to remember the neurotransmitters Acetylcholine, Dopamine, Serotonin, Norepinephrine, GABA, and Glutamate a student might use “A Drug So Neurons Get G” OR you can mix it up—2 strategies for one psych term and the 3rdstrategy for a different psych term: for “Id, Ego, Superego” from Freud’s theory 1) “Identify Each Spock” and 2) “Its Equal Salary” plus 3) “No Openings” for “Naturalistic Observation” from research methods—as long as you use PSY 166 material.
There is a summary of common types of mnemonic strategies that include examples, obtained from an online source, posted under the “Course Materials” tab on Blackboard.
