How Can the Way in Which We Organise Our Thinking by Using Mental Images, Concepts and Schemas Help Us Improve Our Memory?
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How can the way in which we organise our thinking by using mental images, concepts and schemas help us improve our memory?
How can the way in which we organise our thinking by using mental images, concepts and schemas help us improve our memory? This essay is going to look into how people organise there thinking. It will look into mental images, concepts and schema.
In adult life we tend to use words to help us remember things, this is also know as semantic thought. However it has been researched and found out that when people use mental images to remember things such as verbal or written information they remember things more clearly. They can act as a prompt to remember the information. This is aided when the image that we use is something big, bright and distinctive so that it is thought provoking rather than an everyday object. Times when we might use mental images are also when we learn a new language, for example in French the word ‘poubelle’, which is pronounced, “pooh-bell” which means ‘bin’ in English. The way of remembering this is by imaging that a bin can smell very bad and if you imagine yourself lifting the lid of a bin that is shaped like a bell and holding your nose due to the “pooh”. This one example does not always work with everyone however people can get into there own routine and what works for them. However that is a basic example of what using mental images is about.
This key word technique was developed and carried out by Michael Raugh and Richard Atkinson (1975) in which they carried out experiments on two groups of people who were asking to learn 60 Spanish words. One of the groups had been taught the keyword technique using mental images. The other was left to there own devices. When the groups were tested the first group scored an average of 88% where their second group only managed an average score of 28%.
Mnemonics are able to help us to remember things that are constant and don’t change like “big...
How can the way in which we organise our thinking by using mental images, concepts and schemas help us improve our memory? This essay is going to look into how people organise there thinking. It will look into mental images, concepts and schema.
In adult life we tend to use words to help us remember things, this is also know as semantic thought. However it has been researched and found out that when people use mental images to remember things such as verbal or written information they remember things more clearly. They can act as a prompt to remember the information. This is aided when the image that we use is something big, bright and distinctive so that it is thought provoking rather than an everyday object. Times when we might use mental images are also when we learn a new language, for example in French the word ‘poubelle’, which is pronounced, “pooh-bell” which means ‘bin’ in English. The way of remembering this is by imaging that a bin can smell very bad and if you imagine yourself lifting the lid of a bin that is shaped like a bell and holding your nose due to the “pooh”. This one example does not always work with everyone however people can get into there own routine and what works for them. However that is a basic example of what using mental images is about.
This key word technique was developed and carried out by Michael Raugh and Richard Atkinson (1975) in which they carried out experiments on two groups of people who were asking to learn 60 Spanish words. One of the groups had been taught the keyword technique using mental images. The other was left to there own devices. When the groups were tested the first group scored an average of 88% where their second group only managed an average score of 28%.
Mnemonics are able to help us to remember things that are constant and don’t change like “big...