As an eyewitness to a crime, how could you use the most three popular mnemonic techniques: method of loci, peg words, and acronyms, to improve your memory for specific details? If you were a juror, what would you say to the other jurors about the reliability of eyewitness testimony?
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Method of loci:
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Get Help Now!The act of imagining putting objects and items to remember in various places that are familiar to oneself. For example, you’re trying to remember what to get at the grocery store. You can put items along the route from home to work. Bread in the elevator, cheese in the lobby, butter at the side of the road, milk by the statue, etc.
In the case of eye-witnesses, this might be helpful in remembering particular objects at the scene by placing these objects to be remembered into a familiar, remembered locus.
Peg words:
The idea is to pre-memorize a list of words to be associated with numbers, then …
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