Memory techniques · lesson 13 of 24 · free

Visualisation: memory pictures — Memory techniques for students

The mind keeps pictures more easily than plain words, so turning words into pictures helps you memorise faster. A strong memory picture is big, funny, moving and colourful — a giant pink elephant, a mango that sings. Adding a sense makes it stronger still: hear the drum boom, smell the wet earth, feel the prickly cactus. For ideas like “freedom”, picture an action: a bird leaving a cage.

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Memory tip

See it big and silly — “a strong picture sticks faster than a plain word”

  1. Strong pictures: a giant pink elephant, a pencil that dances, a bus made of ice, a frog wearing a crown.
  2. Weak pictures: a plain grey box, the word in small print, a blurry shape, a list of words only.
  3. Add a sense — sight, sound, smell, touch or taste: “hearing a drum boom”, “tasting raw mango”.

Use it for: New words, lists, science terms, history facts and anything you can turn into a scene.

Worked example: 🎨 Strong or weak memory picture: a mango that sings? → a strong picture

  1. A singing mango is funny and full of sound and movement.
  2. So it makes a strong memory picture.

Check: Try it: picture five things you must buy as one silly scene, then recall them an hour later ✓

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