A technique for improving memory, usually involving procedures for elaboration of the material to remembered.

Creative device used to aid memory. It can be linguistically based as in a word mnemonic, for example: HOMES gives us the beginning letters of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior; or a sentence mnemonic, for example: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge which stands for the notes on the staff of the Treble Clef. It can also be visually based, as in mnemonic illustrations which are pictures that help us remember information, such as a picture of a wolf with a hat on that says "canine on the brim to help remember the species to which wolves belong.

Creative device used to assist or intended to assist memory. Example: HOMES gives us the beginning letters of the Great Lakes, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior.

a sentence that helps us to memorize a string of words