Examples of Mnemonic Devices
 

 

 


               I.      Learning the bones of the wrist (looking at the left palm) (acrostic)

 

Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can’t Handle

 

1. Scaphoid

2. Lumen

3. Triquitrum

4. Pisiform

5. Trapezoid

6. Trapezium

7. Capitate

8. Hamate

 

             II.      Learning the days in the months of the year (rhyming)

 

“Thirty days, hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, except February which has twenty-eight, except in a leap year when it has twenty-nine!”

 

             III.     The PEG System (visual association)

 

Allows the remembering of 10 unrelated items in an appropriate order. First the 10 “peg works must be memorized”

One = bun

Two = shoe

Four = door

Five = hive

Six = sticks

Seven = heaven

Eight = gate

Nine = vine

Ten = hen

Take the ten new words to be remembered and imagine them interacting with the peg words.

 

          IV.     Learning first Aid (acronym)

 

Since blood is RED, remember when you see it to:

Rest, Elevate, apply Direct pressure

 

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