mnemonic devices

Absorb & Relate #5 & 6 Absorb: When talking about memory in this chapter, metacognition and metamemory are introduced. Metacognition is our awareness of and knowledge about our own cognitive system. In other words, this is referred to as “knowing about knowing.” Metamemroy is the knowldege about one’s own memory system; also known as “knowing how to know.” One’s metamemroy process includes the awareness that you must get “things” into the memory by performing some intentional acitivity. …

…a scheme so that one can retrieve the information being stored in the memory. Because of the method used, one can later retrive this inforamtion fairly easy. Overall, mnemonic devices provide a way to help peole remember speicific things. Each of the pricniples are very important because without them, it would not be a mnemonic device. Without these devices, remembering information would be very difficult as there is a lot to store in our memories.