Using Imagery to Improve Memory

Question 1

Method of loci: placing images at locations

Answer 1

Visualizing items to be remembered in different locations in a mental image of a familiar spatial layout

Question 2

Pegword technique

Answer 2

Associating to-be-remembered words with images

Form visual image of each to-be-remembered word along with pegword from your standard list

Question 3

Reduce food cravings

Answer 3

Imagining favorite food increases craving
Imagining non-food visual images decreases cravings– it interferes with food imagery

Question 4

Kemps & Tiggermann

Answer 4

Participants looked at phone app with random visual dots whenever felt food craving
Cravings and actual consumption decreased