Mnemonic devices

[hawks08]

Could someone tell me if we have to know the similarities and differneces between Narrative chaining and the method of Loci. It was a question in the grivas book, and i am not sure if we need to know it. If yes, what are they?
thanks

[Spreadbury]

the study design does state that you have to know them.

narrative chaining is where you take a set of unrelated information. e.g. honey, lightning, football and you link them together into a story by adding in lots of irrelevant information which makes the relevant information easier to remember (sorry, i'm trying to do this from memory and doing quite poorly)

the method of loci is like cued recall. you have a place (such as the route to school) that you know well, and everything that you want to remember you associate with the locations. the method of loci is a sequential thing. as you use the method you walk yourself through the locations in your head which serves as cues to help you retrieve the information

[sillysmile]

narrative chaining is more effective the less related the pieces of information you are remembering are to each other, also the more unrealistic/bizzare the story you create is, the more effectively it is retained/retrieved.

[sillysmile]

I believe that is probably easier to understand, Spreadbury explained everything else very well