Build a Stronger Memory

by Craig Ellison

Directions: Read the following questions. Click on the hyperlink words to find the answers. When you are finished finding the answers, type your questions and answers in a MS Word document. Change the font color of you answers. Click here to learn how to do this. Save it as your last name and memory.

1. What is Memory? Give me the first two definitions.

2. What are Mnemonics?

3. List some of the things the human mind is coded to remember. Give me 5.

4. You can use your whole mind to remember. List 3 ways to make Mnemonics more memorable.

5. What is Imagination?

6. What is Association?

7. What is Location?

8. How do you use the Link Method to remember a list? (This will be a long answer.)

9. What are they trying to remember in the example.

10. Use the Link Method to remember the following state capitals and the state they belong too. You must type your link method sentences in your document.

Here’s an example: Richmond Virginia

RICH (Richmond) cooked a VIRGINIA baked ham.

Topeka, Kansas

Concord, New Hampshire

Dover, Delaware

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Columbus, Ohio

Practice Your Memory Skills:

Count the Dots: This is tough

Try working on your Concentration.

Try Simon Says.