Mnemonics for study (2nd ed.) (Study Skills)

building understanding requires time, and in the initial stages there is a lot that needs to be firmly tamped into your brain, before you truly, deeply, understand

Moreover, it is noteworthy that both groups showed the same level of structural coherence in their essays. Mnemonic techniques have been criticized for “cluttering” the mind with unconnected facts. This finding counters that criticism.

this is so, it may be that the place method is best used on expository texts, the link method on narratives, and the pegword method on static visual descriptions.

But list mnemonics can also help you remember the main points of a text. Even though this information is, presumably, meaningfully connected, when you are still building up your knowledge in the area it may well be that you lack sufficiently deep understanding to rely on that for memory.

college students applied the strategy to a 1,800-word passage about historical theories of human intelligence.

This seems to suggest that it is better to create a single, integrated mnemonics for related information from text, and to create it as a whole once you have gathered all the information.

you can connect the separate passages to existing knowledge (that’s why experts are much less prone to interference when acquiring new information). However,

the fact that it is easier to derive the keyword from the target word (go from górod ), than to derive the target word from the keyword (górod from go).

How far you extend that depends on how long you need to remember the information for. If you want to remember it permanently, you should review it after two months, and probably again after six months. That’s based on a recent large study6 that explored the optimal gap between study and test: to remember for a week, the optimal gap was one day; for