“How can the way in which we organise our thinking by using mental images, concepts and schemas help us improve our memory? TMA 01 DSE14”

Thus we can see how mental images, concepts and schemas can assist in learning new information and improving the memory. Mental images can help in learning a new language by using the key words technique, exampled above. They can also help in learning new words in our own language. For instance plasticity, imagine a plastic brain and when learning new information, the brain inflates. This could symbolise the brain changing as one learns new information. Or in the case of concepts, this can help more with recognition, categorization and memory. For example, for someone training as a mechanic, by forming a concept of the tools of the trade they would then be able to tell the difference between a spanner and a wrench. Concepts also allow people to categorise information, such as in an office, when filing documents it would tell someone what category the documents should be filed under…(short extract)