hello and welcome to the final lesson in section two of our as level psychology course today we'll be finishing off memory by looking at neonics so what are pneumonics pneumonics are techniques and methods that we use to improve memory recall we're going to be looking at four main types that people use however there can be many more some people even make up their own neonics to help them in everyday life the first type is the method of Loki and what this does It Works by us attaching a piece of information to a certain location then when we mentally go through that area in our Vis spatial um sketch pad that piece of information has been attached to something we're imagining then as a result uh we're going to be recalling that information by thinking about that um piece of information we've attached Lo um to a certain location so research shows that using the method of Loy gets you higher scores on a test here we have a map of the United States of America if we go with this map and attach one piece of information to each State then when we look at the map and analyze each individual State we may remember that piece of information next up is narrative training and this works by inputting information into a story all the information is now put into meaningful context and we've elaborated upon it so this way we're going to remember it even more so here I've organized a few nouns I have to remember into a story the ball bounced over the elephant into the river and was washed away to the ocean now that they're in meaningful context and we remember that the ball bounced over the elephant the river washed it away and it went into the ocean we can now remember those words um because they are more meaningful to us next up is acronyms and an acronym is a word where each letter stands for another word so these are associated when we spell out the actual acronym and as always research will show that you get higher scores in a test using this method so here I have a little acronym we have an s e e and P spelling out seep which stands for social economic environmental and political this is the pointer that we use to analyze things in a lot of our A- level subjects but as we can see the word seep is an acronym for these points and as a result you remember these points finally we have the keyword technique and this links the information that has to be remembered into known information so here we're going to have three steps the first step is called the acoustic stage and this is where we take a foreign sound and recognize it as an everyday equivalent next up an image is formed combining the foreign sound and our everyday equivalent and finally we then um the image of this English word or everyday equivalent um then links with the foreign sound and as a result we remember it so here's an example I'm trying to remember the name Michael and now Michael sounds like the word my plus the word call so my call when I tried to do this then in step two I then get the um image of my call so myself calling someone and Link them together so then I repeat this in the rehearsal stage my call my call my call and then I remember that your name is my call or myself calling here are some questions I would like you to attempt these just by pausing the video getting another sheet of paper and having a go try and hide your notes and um not to cheat because then that way you really know if you have learned it hit play whenever you're ready to continue Okay so here are the answers if you did get all three of them right congratulations I would advise you to move on to the next uh subject actually the new um section in as level psychology which is all about attachments and the first lesson we're going to be looking at is developmental psychology thank you so much for watching as always and I will see you in the next section