Thursday 17 February 2011

Memory test... From "Use your head", Tony Buzan 1989.

Special memory systems and Mnemonics from "Use your Head by Tony Buzan... (Page 67 – 70)

Test 4 Memory systems

"Here is a list of words next to numbers, read each item once, covering the ones you have read with a card as you progress down the list. The purpose of this is to remember which words went with which number..”

4. Leaf
9. Shirt
1. Table
6. Orange
10. Poker
5. Student
8. Pencil
3. Cat
7. Car
2. Feather

“In order to remember these it is necessary to have some system which enables us to use the associative and linking power of memory to connect them with their proper number.”

The Systems

“Since the time of the Greeks, certain individuals have impressed their fellow men with the most amazing feats of memory. They have been able to remember hundreds of items backwards and forwards in any order.”

“In most cases these individuals were using special memorising principles known as mnemonics… recently the attitude towards them has changed, it has been realised that the methods which initially enable minds to remember something more easily and quickly, and then to remember it for much longer afterwards.”

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