Mnemonics

Memory tricks or devices that help you remember information by associating it with something easier to recall. Common mnemonics include acronyms (making a word from the first letters of items you need to remember, like ROY G. BIV for the colors of the rainbow), rhymes (“i before e except after c”), or little stories that link a series of facts. They work because they create vivid, catchy, or silly connections in your brain, which are much stickier than plain facts. For example, to remember the planets in order, many kids learn “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos” (for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). Mnemonics turn memorization into a fun puzzle — the weirder or funnier, the better it sticks!
Keywords: mnemonics, memory tricks, memory aids