Improving Your Memory (17 page)

The Story Method (
page 123
)

1. Envision a birthday cake shaped like a safe. You use a key to open it and find a huge pile of money.

2. See yourself breaking the bottle of cologne and sweeping up the pieces into a box of stationery.

First-Letter Cues (
pages 125
–
126
)

1. Mother Always Liked Rose Best.

2. CAR or ARC

Create a Word (
page 127
)

1. Plum

2. Robot

3. Glow

4. String

5. Hold

Categorization (
page 128
)

Cue Yourself (
page 131
)

George W. Bush and Al Gore

Letter Cues (
pages 132
–
133
)

Beginning Letter

Fruit with a P: peach

Animal with a D: donkey

Metal with an I: iron

Bird with a B: bobolink

Country with an F: Finland

Boy’s name with an H: Hank

Girl’s name with an A: Anna

Vegetable with a P: parsnip

Weapon with an S: sword

Flower with a P: peony

Ending Letter

Fruit with an H: peach

Animal with a W: cow

Metal with an R: copper

Bird with an N: wren

Country with a Y: Hungary

Boy’s name with a D: Rod

Girl’s name with an N: Marion

Vegetable with a T: beet

Weapon with a W: bow and arrow

Flower with a T: violet

(Exercise adapted with permission from Alan Baddeley,
Your Memory: A
User’s Guide
, New York, Macmillan, 1982.)