STRATEGIES OF RETRIEVAL

Yosephine Susi S. 69110038 Tugas Mata Kuliah Strategi Kognitif

Strategies of retrieval = strategies that enable people to retrieve names, dates and unconnected events from their memories, and are often called mnemonic systems. This cognitive strategies appear to be useful for the memorizing and retrieval of special kinds of information, particularly information that is not otherwise related by its meanings or by the meanings its share with other knowledge.

There are many different ways in which mnemonic devices come in handy : Acronyms and acrostics Rhymes Imagery Method of Loci Number-letter system Peg-word system People use these to help them out for memorizing an array of things, basically anything.

Acronyms and Acrostics

Acronym is a word formed from the first letters or groups of letters in a name or phrase.
Example: My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a way to remember the eight planets and in order. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Acrostic is a series of lines from which particular letters (such as the first letters of all lines) from a word or phrase.
Example: HOMES stands for the Great Lakes, which would be Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.

Rhyme
A rhyme is a saying that has similar distinctive sounds at the end of each line.

Studies have shown that rhyming makes things easier to remember because it can be stored with acoustic encoding.
Example: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue.

Imagery
Imagery is used to memorize pairs of words.

An image is formed as a result of each word given, and then two images are joined through mental visualization.
Example: Piggy bank =
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Method of Loci
The Method of Loci is a mnemonic device that dates back to Ancient Greek times. They would use this to assist them when memorizing a speech.
Example:
You have to imagine a place that you are very familiar with. Then you imagine all the possible locations in that place, or all possible situations. It could help if you put everything in a specific order.
Say you were telling someone about a house. You would have to be very familiar with that house and everything in it. And in order to make telling someone about this house easier you would have to think about it in some kind of order. You could start at the basement, then move up to the main floor, and then move to the second floor.

Peg-Word System
The Peg-Word System can be used for memorizing an ordered list of words or the specific numbers associated with the words.
Example: 1.bun 2.shoe 3.tree 4.door 5.hive 6.sticks 7.heaven 8.gate 9.line or shine or vine 10.hen