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When you picture something in your mind you are using this strategy.
What is imagery (or visualization)?
When you use color while taking notes or making flash cards, you are using this strategy.
What is color coding?
When you put information into a familiar tune to help yourself remember the information, you are using this strategy.
What is music?
When you state the message over and over again, out loud, you are using this strategy.
What is repetition?
When you try to think of words that have the same ending to help trigger memory of another word, you are using this strategy.
What is rhyming?
When you repeat a message quietly to yourself (for short term/working memory), you are using this strategy.
What is rehersal (or subvocalizing)?
When you make something funny to remember it, you are using this strategy.
What is humor?
When you give yourself a moment to think and find the word (or meaning) you are searching for, you are using this strategy.
Pausing
If you needed to remember a short string of numbers (e.g., a phone number) only temporarily until you could write it down, you could use this strategy (1).
What is rehersal/subvocalization? (repeating it quietly to yourself)
If you are reading an article or short story for class and have to identify the characters, plot, setting, etc., and reference back to them later, you could use this strategy (1).
What is color coding?
If you want to memorize an algebraic formula, you could use this strategy (4).
What is musical, writing, visual (flashcard), and/or repetition?
What is visual/picture cueing?
When you put a message into your own words, repeating key words that are familiar to you, you are using this strategy.
What is paraphrasing?
When you use something personal and use the first letter of each word to make something memorable, you are using this strategy.
What is mnenomics?
When you put information into semantically (vocabulary, word meanining) connected groups, you are using this strategy.
What is categorizing (or chunking)?
When you create an interconnected outline on paper of how concepts relate to each other, you are using this strategy.
What it networking (aka wordwebs or mind maps)?
When you examine the different details of the information you are learning (including sensory, who/what/where/when/why), you are using this strategy.
What is describing?
When you try to think of what letter a word starts with to trigger your memory, you are using this strategy.
What is the first letter?
When you use make the motion of writing (whether with pencil and paper or your finger), you are using this strategy to trigger muscle memory.
What is writing or fingerspell?
When you shorten information and simplify lanugage to restate something (but not really using your own words), you are using this strategy.
What is summarizing (or rephrasing)?
If you wanted to memorize a list of unrelated words, you could use this strategy (7).
What is networking/wordwebs, writing/visual (flashcards), music, humor, mnemonics, repetition and/or imagery/visualization?
If you wanted to memorize a list of related words, you could use this strategy (6).
What is categorizing/chunking, networking/wordwebs, music, visual/writing (flashcards), repetition, and/or mnemonics?
If I want to trigger a word I can't remember, I can use this strategy (7).
What is pausing, think of the first letter, think of a rhyme, finger spelling, describing the word, visualization and/or think of a synonym/antonym?
If you want to remember the important parts of a long piece of information (like a news article or short story), you could use this strategy (4).
What is paraphrasing, rephrasing/summarizing, color coding, and/or networks/wordwebs?
If you need to remember when your assignments are due, you can use this strategy (3).
What is writing (using a planner), color coding, and/or visual cueing (e.g., sticky note on your locker or pop-up reminder on your phone)?