Have you ever heard of the "One-Bun" method of memory recall? This method is widely used to recall lists of items and it uses association and what are known as "peg images" to help you recall this information.
This technique is created by linking together a number (such as seven, eight, nine or ten etc) and an image (known as a peg image). A common combination of numbers and pegs is: one- bun, two-shoe, three-tree, four-door, five-hive, six-sticks, seven-heaven, eight-gate, nine-vine and ten-hen.
Don't be concerned if you must remember more than items (most people would!) You can use this method to recall as many items as you need as long as you can continue to count and continue to think of peg items. Also, it is important to note that it is advised that you make the peg images something you find very easy to remember because if you forget them then you will forget everything!
For the sake of simplicity, let's imagine that you have been assigned to remember the names of ten presidents of the United States (clearly you will often if not always need to remember more items than this but let's just use this list as an example). The names that you have been asked to remember are Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, George Washington, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman. Using the one-bun method we can see how three of these names can easily be numbered and pegged using this technique.
The One-Bun Association. Imagine a jack in the box springing open but instead of having a clown's head, it has a hamburger bun as a head! The "jack" in the jack in the box will help you think of Andrew Jackson.
The Two-Shoe Association. Imagine that Frankenstein is wearing giant red tennis shoes! Frankenstein will help remind you of Franklin Roosevelt.
The Ten-Hen Association. Imagine a chicken scuttling around the farmyard. But instead of seeing a normal chicken's head, the chicken has a man's head! He is half chicken, half man! This should help you to remember Harry Truman.
Each idea was associated with an image. And each image represented something out of the ordinary that we attempted to make very vivid and memorable. Remember, when doing associations, the stranger the image the easier it will be to memorize and recall.
Finally, make sure that you use the same peg images every time you use the one-bun method. You don't change the peg images (bun, shoe, tree, door etc) when you are changing the list of items you need to remember - you only change the associations you create. Good luck!
This technique is created by linking together a number (such as seven, eight, nine or ten etc) and an image (known as a peg image). A common combination of numbers and pegs is: one- bun, two-shoe, three-tree, four-door, five-hive, six-sticks, seven-heaven, eight-gate, nine-vine and ten-hen.
Don't be concerned if you must remember more than items (most people would!) You can use this method to recall as many items as you need as long as you can continue to count and continue to think of peg items. Also, it is important to note that it is advised that you make the peg images something you find very easy to remember because if you forget them then you will forget everything!
For the sake of simplicity, let's imagine that you have been assigned to remember the names of ten presidents of the United States (clearly you will often if not always need to remember more items than this but let's just use this list as an example). The names that you have been asked to remember are Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, George Washington, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman. Using the one-bun method we can see how three of these names can easily be numbered and pegged using this technique.
The One-Bun Association. Imagine a jack in the box springing open but instead of having a clown's head, it has a hamburger bun as a head! The "jack" in the jack in the box will help you think of Andrew Jackson.
The Two-Shoe Association. Imagine that Frankenstein is wearing giant red tennis shoes! Frankenstein will help remind you of Franklin Roosevelt.
The Ten-Hen Association. Imagine a chicken scuttling around the farmyard. But instead of seeing a normal chicken's head, the chicken has a man's head! He is half chicken, half man! This should help you to remember Harry Truman.
Each idea was associated with an image. And each image represented something out of the ordinary that we attempted to make very vivid and memorable. Remember, when doing associations, the stranger the image the easier it will be to memorize and recall.
Finally, make sure that you use the same peg images every time you use the one-bun method. You don't change the peg images (bun, shoe, tree, door etc) when you are changing the list of items you need to remember - you only change the associations you create. Good luck!
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