A Survey of Mnemonic Techniques Used by College Students in Free-Recall Learning

In a survey of memory aids that college students would employ in free-recall learning, Ss reported the following devices ordered by frequency of occurrence: first-letter, simple-repetition, clustering, other, personal-experience, and descriptive-story. No significant differences were found between men and women by category of memory aids reported, and the first-letter technique was found to be the mnemonic reported most often.