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STRATEGIES OF RETRIEVAL

Yosephine Susi S.

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Tugas Mata Kuliah Strategi Kognitif

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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 ofinformation, particularly information that is not

otherwise related by its meanings or by the meanings

its share with other knowledge.

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There are many different ways in whichmnemonic 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.

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• 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.

Acronyms and Acrostics 

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 A rhyme is a saying that has similar distinctive sounds at the end

of each line.

Studies have shown that rhyming makes things easier toremember because it can be stored with acoustic encoding.

Example:In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the OceanBlue.

Rhyme 

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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 mentalvisualization.

Example:

Piggy bank =

Imagery 

+  = 

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The Method of Loci is a mnemonic device that dates back to Ancient Greek times. They would use this to assist them whenmemorizing a speech.

Example:You have to imagine a place that you are very familiar with. Then youimagine all the possible locations in that place, or all possiblesituations. 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 couldstart at the basement, then move up to the main floor, and then move to thesecond floor.

Method of Loci 

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The Peg-Word System can be used for memorizing anordered list of words or the specific numbers associated withthe words.

Example:1.bun2.shoe3.tree4.door 5.hive6.sticks7.heaven8.gate9.line or shine or vine10.hen

Peg-Word System