David Filar wrote: "A
mnemonic I learned from a park ranger 55-plus years ago pertaining to stalactite/stalagmite: When the mites go up the tites (tights) come down' as it pertains to a ballet dancer."
A controversial aspect of keyword
mnemonics concerns its efficacy with low imagery words on account of the greater difficulties encountered with mental images.
As the scenario with John illustrates, asking students to reflect on the mathematical
mnemonics that they use can provide a fruitful exercise in reasoning and proof.
Finally, in this study a first-year teacher was able to easily implement the
mnemonics strategy demonstrating that
mnemonics instruction requires little training.
Most everyone knows at least one
mnemonic (ne-mon'-ic) even without having the technical name for it.
Some of you may have been taught an unwieldy, but cleverly ironic,
mnemonic to learn your required IFR reports--MARVELOUS VFR 500.
Presenting figurative idioms with a touch of etymology: more than mere
mnemonics?, Language Teaching Research, 11(1), 43-62.
27, 2012 in the journal Hippocampus, suggests that
mnemonic techniques may help lessen dysfunction in key brain regions in people with early signs of memory disorders.
Gronas's final chapter, "
Mnemonic Poets: The Tip-of-the-Tongue State, the Saussurean Anagram, and the Mechanisms of
Mnemonic Activity," shifts emphasis to the
mnemonics of the poet's creative process by way of the mystery of Saussure's anagrams, theme words which the famous linguist found broken up and hidden in poems both ancient and new.
This monograph, which grew out of a 1995 doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto, demonstrates well the central role of memory and
mnemonic techniques in preaching across Europe from the thirteenth to the early fifteenth century.
Archaeologists in Europe and the US contribute to the current interest in prehistoric memory practices, memory sites, and material
mnemonics. Their topics include the production and use of the engraved slate plaque-relics in the Iberian Neolithic, an embodied approach to the Late Bronze Age of central Macedonia, the
mnemonics of central European Iron Age burial mounds, the remembrance of the past in Iron Age Scandinavia, and archaeology as a
mnemonic practice.
In our emergency psychiatric facility the UNSAFE and SAFE
mnemonics are posted next to the desk of the on-duty psychiatrist.
I have often used
mnemonics within my practice and as a student to help remember key information, and there is much evidence to support their effectiveness (Bloom and Lamkin, 2006; Keshavan, 2010).
Rivers argues that while Franciscan and Dominican sermon
mnemonics had much in common, Franciscan practice was distinctive in that it employed mental images drawn from the meditative spiritual exercises of the Order.
