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What do you think people who are intelligent are like? What do they do? How do they act? How do you know they’re smart?
It used to be that intelligence was measured by how well a person did in school.
But as people began to understand more about how the mind works, they began to realize that there are actually many different ways in which people are intelligent.
Short-term memory stores information for a short period of time – from a few seconds to a few hours.
Your short-term memory is what you use when you are trying to remember:
the name of a person you’ve just meta message you need to pass on to someonea new phone number you’ve just looked upitems you need to get from the shoptwo prices to compare on different websites.
Mnemonics (pronounced ‘Ne-mon-iks’) are handy methods and techniques to help us memorize information. Here are some mnemonics you might know:
‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’This is an example of a rhyme mnemonic, used to help us remember a spelling rule.
Every Good Boy Deserves FunThis is an acrostic, used to help us remember the lines of the treble clef. The first letter of each word in the verse spells out EGBDF.
ROY G BIVThis is an acronym to help us remember the colour spectrum.