Provide an example of how each of the following mnemonic methods could be used to remember a psychology concept or term: (a) the keyword method, (b) forming a story or a chain, (c) taking a mental walk, and (d) using a system
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ANSWER: Answers will include a description of each method, although the examples will vary. For example, (a) the keyword method involves a familiar word or image being used to link two other words or items, such as linking the part of the brain responsible for memory, the hippocampus, to "a hippo on a college campus about the take a test on memory." The cerebellum, which is involved in motor skills, could be recalled by linking a mental picture of "a girl named Sara playing the bells." In (b) forming a story or chain to remember steps, types, or stages, a student might form a story to remember the ten personality disorders and cues about their basic characteristics. The story might involve the ten personality disorders riding a bus with the avoidant being too shy to talk to anyone on the bus and the schizoid not talking to anyone because he wanted to be alone. The narcissist wanted to get off first since he was so important, while the obsessive-compulsive got off a cleaning supply store, the histrionic got off at a store with a flamboyant hat, the borderline couldn't decide where to get off since her moods were so erratic, the dependent wanted the bus driver to choose where she got off, the schizotypal wanted to get off where he could get more aluminum foil to make his helmet to keep out the cosmic rays, and the paranoid thought the bus driver had cheated him by giving him the wrong change when really the antisocial had stolen his money. (c) Taking a mental walk could be used to remember the eight psychosocial stages by imagining oneself walking by a line of statues of people at different ages, starting with a statue of a baby with the word "Trust" on the base of the statue. Then, "Autonomy" on the statue of the toddler through the statue of a person in old age with the word "Integrity." In the module on visual sensation, one could (d) use a system, Roy
G. Biv, to remember the colors of the visual spectrum, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
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