What are the effects of Picture-Word Association on Memory Recall?
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I have personally found picture-word association very effective when trying to study.  I am a college student who swears by the wonders of picture-word association.
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Pictures and realia go a long way. When people see something that they recognize and hear the word repeatedly, they will remember the word more than if they just heard it alone.
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For younger students, you can use a lot of pictures and words to learn simple phrases and sentences.  You should draw, use your hands and movements to explain words.  Songs and nursery rhymes help children remember words.  Remember to be patient!
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I have learnt that a mnemonic device helps you to remember things especially terms better. But I don't know the answer to this...top level of organization?
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picture all of these in your mind for like 5 secs \na tree with a human heart in it \na bear drinking gatoraid \na fish at a computer  \na picture of a plain white house \na big yellow sun smiling \na tiger on a toilet \n a plant with arms\nnow say them ten times \npicture them \n\nwhat do they have in common \nyou will be able to remember them for a really long time\n\nfind a way to connect you lines in your head
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Mnemonic techniques are memory aids based on finding associations between what you have to remember and other, easier-to-remember items. For instance, if you have to memorize a sequence of sentences or words, use them to construct a phrase that makes sense and includes them (entirely or partially, or only the initials) in the correct order. \nI remember a mnemonic used to remember the suffixes for oxids and derived acids in Chemistry classes  (I cannot use it as example because it doesn't make sense in English).
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Are these memories bad enough to make you willing to try some visualization techniques?\n\nIf they are, here's a description of what I've done personally and with some other people to help with bad memories.\n\nIt is key to remember that we don't want to forget them completely. Total forgetting might let us repeat whatever caused the first bad memory and keep us from learning how to deal these situations. \n\nWe just want to get to the point where we are not feeling these memories all over again like they're brand new and we don't want to spend all our time thinking about not thinking about them.\n\nThe nice thing about these techniques is that even if they don't help, they do no harm, so we don't have to be afraid of trying them. The techniques do not have the side effects of drugs or alcohol.\n\nFirst, mentally lay out the memories you dislike and would like to give less attention to. Treat them like clothes that you would lay out on the bed before putting them away.\n\nTake one memory. Look at it as if it were something you were watching on television.\n\nReach out. Just like your real TV, reach out and turn down the volume. Take the color knob and turn it down until the memory fades to black and white. Now move to the other knob, the one for brightness and contrast. Turn down the brightness and contrast until you can barely see it. Play with it. Up, down, up, down. \n\nNow, leaving the memory black and white and just barely visible, reach out and pick it up and place it behind you, out of sight. It's still there. You can bring it out any time you want to, but you've physically moved it so that it is not blocking your ability to see other things.\n\nDo that for each memory that disturbs you. Make the physical movements. That will help give you "muscle memory" of what you've done, what you've changed, not just "mind memory."\n\nFor good memories, do the same thing only turn UP the volume, the color, the brightness and contrast. Place them to your side where you can easily see them out of the corner of your eye whenever you want to.\n\nThey're YOUR memories and you'd be less than a whole person if you lost them. You just want to pack them away in their right place. Whatever you place in front of you will be seen better than anything else. Whatever you place behind you will only be seen when you pull it out to take a look. You're in control instead of being controlled by.\n\nThis has helped me with memories of death, embarrassment, loss. I've passed it on to others before, physically guiding and encouraging them to make the motions, and they've reported that it has helped them. Try it right now, and tell us what happens.
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You have to use it or lose it.\nAlso, thinking games have been found to improve memory.  Sudoku, crossword puzzles, card games, etc.
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Try using them in conversation, and don't try to remember too many new words at once.  Gaining contextual familiarity and not overwhelming yourself will help you remember new words.  Good luck!
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I think you have a short term memory loss... is that your question???
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It is a debated topic.  If you search Google and Wikipedia for terms like "cognition" and "neuropsychology," you will turn up a variety of opinions and research.  But really generally speaking, when you are trying to remember something, they can see different synapses firing more rapidly in your brain...
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
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the memory is enhanced because the neurons in your brain form new connections and we remember things for tests and such because when we study we make those connections stronger. Hope this helps.
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try using images to improve your memory.  If you can connect something you want to remember with some visual mental picture sometimes it helps.  And the more ridiculous the better usually.  Example...  I want to remember a ladies name "Madge Baskum" I picture her wearing a badge and carrying a basket.   Badge Basket=Madge Baskum, it helps me anyway, hope it helps.
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The following is a short review of a book by Jules Davidoff who says there is is significant evidence that color is basic building block of memory. \n\nI quote: "Cognition through Color\nJules Davidoff\n\nA century ago phrenologists described a "bump" for color located just over the eyebrow. Today's modular approach to the organization of the visual cortex is more sophisticated, yet it still holds that there are brain areas dedicated solely to particular aspects of perception. Cognition through Color reviews the current status of investigations of color cognition from the standpoint of modern neuropsychology. It provides clear evidence, based on a large body of empirical study that includes the author's own work on color perception and naming, that color appears to be one of the basic building blocks or modules from which perception is constructed and our memories organized. Davidoff systematically relates this evidence to an explicit model of color cognition from sensation through functional role to naming.\n\nThe original impetus for Cognition through Color came from the investigation of individuals with brain damage. There are, for example, patients who have difficulty in naming colors. More important, despite normal color vision, memory for colors can be "split off" from all aspects of memory for shapes and objects, providing a strong case for the notion of modularity in vision.\n\nDavidoff shows that to understand how color is remembered, we must know how objects are recognized. He observes that the perception of what we call color is, in essence, the study of the surface properties of objects, and he develops a model in which the mental representations for color can be linked to the knowledge of objects. Throughout he emphasizes detailed critical analysis of experimental data in light of current theories of both perception and cognition.\n\nJules Davidoff is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University College of Swansea."\n\nSource: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=5589&ttype=2
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Taken from "Brain-Based Learning" written by Eric Jensen (Revised Edition, 2000)\n\nA recent study (Vuontela, et al. 1999) measured  the relative value of verbal cues versus color cues in learning and memory. In testing memory for verbs and memory for colors, learners better recalled color. And when objects were tested against color, once again, color memory was stronger. Even an intention to remember did not affect the outcome of the experiment.\n_______________\n\nTaken from "The Power of Color" by Morton Walker, 1991\n\n"Red - is an engaging and emotive color. Best for restaurants. It is considered more disturbing by anxious subjects, and more exciting to calm subjects. Triggers the pituitary and adrenal glands and releases adrenaline. May increase blood pressure and breathing, and stimulate appetite and sense of smell.\n\nYellow - is the first color a person distinguishes in the brain. Associated with stress, caution, and apprehension, yet it stimulates an overall sense of optimism, hope, and balance. Excellent for use in classrooms.\n\nOrange - has the characteristics halfway between red and yellow. It is one of the best colors for stimulating learning.\n\nBlue - is the most tranquilizing color. It calms tense subjects and increases feelings of well-being. When you see blue, your brain releases eleven neurotransmitters that relax the body, and may result in a reduction of temperature, perspiration, and appetite. Blue may be a bit too calming for most learning environments.\n\nGreen - is also a calming color. In response blood histamine levels may rise resulting in reduced sensitivity to food allergies. Antigens may be stimulated for overall better immune system healing.\n\nDark Colors - lower stress and increase feelings of peacefulness.\n\nBrown - promotes a sense of security, relaxation, and reduces fatigue.\n\nBright Colors - such as red, orange, and yellow spark energy and creativity. they can also increase aggressive and nervous behavior.\n\nGray - is the most neutral color.\n\nFor optimal learning, choose yellow, light orange, beige, or off-white. Those colors seem to stimulate positive feelings."\n\n__________________________________\n\nWhat this means in the educational environment.\nWe may be underutilizing the potential of color in the learning environment. Use color handouts and overhead transparencies. Conciously choose the colors you use in the classroom; hang colorful posters; and encourage the use of color in mind-maps, painting, projects, and posters.\n\n\nHope this helps some. \nLet me know if you need more
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I think this refers to a kind of memory more usually called "photographic memory" or "eidetic imagery." People who have this kind of memory can memorise a picture in all its detail and answer questions about it days later. \n\nThere is an illiterately titled site, "How good is you [sic] memory?" See there for a test of picture memory.