Mnemonic devices can help students remember important facts and principles. Mnemonic devices commonly employ a rhyme, such as "30 days hath September, April, June, and November," so that they are recalled easily. Some use an acrostic phrase where the first letter of each word stands for anothe...
Nursing studentsPatient safetySimulationBackground Remembering the many safety behaviors and patient care activities expected during a patient encounter can be difficult for novice nursing students. The HI I CARE mnemonic device was created to assist novice nursing students to remember and organize key ...
After stimulating the parts of the brain that had previously deteriorated, some patients have begun to participate in activities or recall memories they had not been able to in a very long time. For example, some patients began to drive, bake, and remember their grandchildren’s name. The ...
The purpose of the Memory Motifs project is to examine “how American Jews came to know stories about Holocaust survivors through American Jewish philanthropic activities in the immediate postwar period.” Furthermore, the exhibit was created to allow public knowledge on the subject to form their ow...
But the patient is generating such reports because of system- level deficits, and may continue to insist on this account of his weekend activities even after being reminded of his hospitalization, etc., and these latter elaborations look like key instances of broad confabulation. The interrelation ...
The silent 'w' is what tricks students up in the word 'playwright.' Next time you want to spell it, remember the phrase, ''The play was right even though it was silent.'' 6. Conscience Your conscience tells you right from wrong, but that doesn't make it any easier to spell. Kee...
This computational mechanism of the hippocampus, called pattern separation, is suggested to be responsible for the reduction of interference effects between overlapping memory representations10,16,17. At a neural level, as a result of pattern separation, activities of brain circuits become distinct...
BACKGROUND: Working memory (WM) maintains a limited amount of information over a short period of time at the service of other ongoing mental activities. Deficits in this function are often observed in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The present study examined whether self-report schizotypy was ...
One teacher and 84 sixth-grade social studies students participated in the study.;Experimental group students experienced peer-mediated mnemonic modeling activities during their regularly scheduled social studies classes while the control group received traditional geographic instruction only, which involved ...