Common types of mnemonics Acronyms: Using the first letter of each item to form a new, easy-to-remember word Acrostics: (First-Letter Sentences): Creating a memorable need to recall. sentence where the first letter of each word corresponds to the information you Rhymes: Putting information into a rhythmic poem to make it catchy. Visualization: Linking the target information to a vivid, sometimes absurd mental image. Method of Loci: A spatial memory technique where you associate different pieces of information with specific physical locations in a familiar place (like your house). ROY G BIV for the colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles to remember the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November... Right/Left: "Righty-Tighty, Lefty-Loosey". Days in the Month: Knuckle technique (knuckles are 31 days) To remember the processes that define living things: MRS GREN: Movement; Respiration; Sensation; Growth; Reproduction; Excretion; Nutrition To remember the order of taxa in biology (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, [variety] "Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup" For the OSI Network Layer model Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away correspond to the Physical, Datalink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation and Application layers. All People Seem to Need Data Processing = Application Presentation Session Transportation Network Datalink Physical Pi The first 15 digits of Pi can be remembered by counting the letters in the phrase, "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heav lectures involving quantum mechanics." Geological periods: Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous; Post-Cretaceous Epochs: Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent (Holocene) Mohs scale of mineral hardness 1-10: For Talc(=1), Gypsum(=2), Calcite(=3), Fluorite(=4), Apatite(=5), Orthoclase(=6), Quartz (=7), Topaz (=8), Corundum(=9), Diamond(=10)