On 20/11/2010 13:55, Oisín wrote:
I've rarely used mnemonics when learning in Mnemosyne though, because
I worried that it might circumvent the process of getting things into
my long-term memory (i.e. when I have to use a mnemonic to recall an
item, is it cheating? Or does it reinforce the "correct" pathway to
the item?). I suppose some experiments are in order!
That's a really interesting point. I suspect I have been subconsciously
thinking about this but you have articulated it rather well. I find
mnemonics are useful for learning initially and for spelling botanical
latin, but in the long-term it sometimes 'gets in the way'. I'm probably
not going to explain it very well but items I've learned
non-mnemonically (so to speak) are 'easier' in the long term than items
where I've used mnemonics in some way. For example, I have a card for
botanical latin that is:
Latin:
Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
Common:
Hawthorn Shieldbug
This was a tricky one to learn and I couldn't readily think of any
mnemonics in the latin to act as hooks so I just let it repeat and
repeat and wash over me until gradually it stuck. Did it eventually go
into long-term memory without hanging around much in short-term memory?
Dougie
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