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Mnemonic devices can help social science students better memorize academic content. [1] For economics, mind mapping and acronyms can help relate terms and remember lists. [2] For psychology, visual imagery and acrostics can aid remembering brain lobes' functions and goals of the field. [3] For sociology, note-taking methods like Cornell notes can help understand concepts by relating them to life, and acronyms remember religion's functions and dysfunctions.

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Mnemonic devices can help social science students better memorize academic content. [1] For economics, mind mapping and acronyms can help relate terms and remember lists. [2] For psychology, visual imagery and acrostics can aid remembering brain lobes' functions and goals of the field. [3] For sociology, note-taking methods like Cornell notes can help understand concepts by relating them to life, and acronyms remember religion's functions and dysfunctions.

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Topic: Prepare a plan as how various memory mnemonics can be used for helping a social

science (Psychology, Sociology, History, Political Science and Economics) student to better
memorize the academic contents.

The term mnemonics refers to the art of improving memory, and mnemonic devices are used to aid
memory by reorganizing information into more meaningful units and providing extra cues to help
retrieve information from long-term memory.

For a student of Social Science (Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Political Science and History),
learning, by co-relating information and facts with real-life examples, is an important factor, and certain
mnemonic devices can help in consolidating the facts.

1. Economics:

The mind-mapping technique, which involves hierarchical and visual organization of information,
allows easy correlation between terms and sub-topics and aids in understanding of the whole, as is
shown below for the topic of Demand:

Acronym is a mnemonic device which involves combining the initial letters of a longer word or phrase
to form a shorter word. It can be used in Economics to remember list items, as shown below for the
topic of Forms of Market:

Characteristics of Perfect Competition: L – Large number of buyers and sellers

U – Uniform Price

H – Homogeneous Product

F – Free Entry and Exit of Firms

A – Abnormal Profits earned by Firms


2. Psychology:

Visual imagery can be used to remember the four lobes of the cerebral cortex and their
functions in the following way:

A. Frontal lobe: Involved in complex problem-solving tasks


Mnemonic – Imagine Einstein peeking out from the “front door” on your forehead

B. Parietal lobe: Receives sensory information and involved in spatial abilities


Mnemonic – Imagine a piranha biting you, the sensation of which would be processed by
the parietal lobe.

C. Occipital lobe: Receives and processes visual information


Mnemonic – Imagine an octopus (occ) and eyes on the tentacles in place of suckers.

D. Temporal lobe: Involved in auditory comprehension


Mnemonic – Imagine a microphone in your brain which is responsible for sound reception

(Source of mnemonic examples: Brain Mnemonics by Michael Britt)

Acrostics can be used in the following way to remember the goals of Psychology in the following
way:

Don’t Use Phone In Airplanes:

(i) Describe behavior of people and other species


(ii) Understand the causes of these behaviors
(iii) Predict how people and animals will behave under certain conditions
(iv) Influence behaviors though control of their causes
(v) Apply psychological knowledge to enhance human welfare

3. Sociology:

Note-organization is a mnemonic device that can be especially useful for this subject.

Using the Cornell note-taking method to first write down important notes, then form cues
and/or questions based on the notes and lastly, summarizing the concept in one’s own word is
one of the best ways to learn sociology as it requires understanding the concepts by relating
them to everyday life. For taking down the notes, the Outline method of note-taking can be
used along with the Cornell method to create solidarity between and maintain seamless
comprehension of subtopics and sub-concepts.

Acronyms and acrostics can be used for listed facts, for example for remembering the functions
and dysfunctions of religion.
4. Political Science:

Model Mnemonics can be used for remembering topics like types of political analysis, as shown
below:

David Easton’s model of Systematic analysis-

5. History:

Connection mnemonics is a great way to memorize concepts taught in this subject. For
example, when talking about how the individual cannot be independent of the society, E. H.
Carr, in his book “What his History?” connected this piece of information to a known example of
Robinson Crusoe, who wanted to stay separated from human society but carried the Bible with
him and prayed to the tribal God, both of which are products of the society.

In general, acronyms, acrostics, visual imagery, method of Loci, connection mnemonics, etc. can
be used for all the subjects equally, as different concepts and themes, and different contents
and chapters require different techniques for memorizing as well as coordinating ideas and data.

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