What strategies can you suggest for putting information into long-term memory? Provide an example of a strategy you found to be successful.

What will be an ideal response?

- Association. You probably already use this in some ways to connect something new to something you already know. Situations often provide the stimulus for associations.
- Categorization. When you organize information into categories, you can often remember better and longer.
- Mediation. Meaningful information is much easier to retrieve. Unrelated pieces of data are harder to remember. Mediation works in the following ways. (1) Form a meaningful word out of foreign words or meaningless syllables. (2) Words can be made out of the initial letters of the items presented.
- Imagery. Most information is processed into your memory through two sensory channels: the visual or the auditory. To tap into this, you can use imagery by creating visual or mental images from the information presented. If you want to remember something, you create vivid mental images of that information in order to later recall and apply it.
- Mnemonics. You create ways to make sense of the information presented and use visual imagery to make the impression vivid. When you combine meaningful words and vivid images, you can recall information more quickly and accurately.
- Student examples will vary.