Gabi Pontell's Memory Strategy

This week's blog is about Memory. In my nutrition class, there are many terms we have to know and remember, as well as abbreviations for words. I decided that using an acronym would be a beneficial strategy to help me memorize. For example, I needed to remember that a certain type of diet included bananas, rice, apples and toast. Now, I had to make up an acrostic to make it easier to remember.

This is what I did:


I wrote the first letter of each word.

B R A T

I instantly saw that they formed the word brat and that I could easily remember it. Fortunately I got easy letters to work with in order to form a word.

I think this method would easily work with many of my classes because it is very effective in helping me remember important terms for class.


I also tried this strategy in my Arts and Ideas class because it involves a lot of memorization and terms. I needed to memorize a painting called "San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane."

S C A Q F


I looked at the letters and tried to make a catchy sentence. Finally I came up with Some Cows Are Quite Funny.


This strategy is very useful for me because it makes it very easy for me to remember terms and phrases. In my art class especially, it helps me to memorize the names of paintings and artists. Also, I retain information a lot better with repetition, so by making a catchy phrase and saying it over and over will make me remember the material.