1.1. This is where you take the first letter or words to make it shorter and easier to remember, such as things like "Radar", which stands for radio detecting and ranging.
2. Assocciation
2.1. When you associate new information, with a visual cue/image/or something familiar to help you remember. For instance to remember what the colored part or you eye is called, you could visualize a iris flower (Iris is also the colored part of the eye)
3. Rhymes and Rhythms
3.1. Using rhymes and rythms to help you to remeber something. For example when I want to remember my mom's birthday, it is easy because it rhymes! (three)-(eleven)-(seventy-seven).
4. Method-of-place Technique
4.1. This is to associate topics of information with location or familiar rooms. For instance you could remember that need to make dinner, by remembering the kitchen is where food is made.
5. Acrostics
5.1. Similar to acronyms, they are made up of words, in which the first letter of every word stands for something. This allows you to take lots of information and make it easier to remember. For example: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. This stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction, and is commonly used to teach children the order of operations in math.
6. Chunking
6.1. grouping information together to make it easier to recall it. An example the book gives, is that most people can remember up to 7 numbers in a row, and that is why phone numbers are that long.
7. Stacking Technique
7.1. Visualize objects that represent points of information. For instance if you were trying to remember how. You should start by making a list of things you need to remeber, and create an image to associate with the first info you need to remember. Then do with this all of the other thing you have to remember, and stack them on top of each other.
