I must admit I'm having a hard time grasping the entire usefulness of word and image association. What I mean is that while having a group of images in one's mind to use as a key to unlock the wanted information, for instance using Mel Gibson eating a pomegranate to remember Melpoeme, is really creating an additional step between one and memorizing the information. Perhaps it appeals and works for one because one might have an easier time remembering an image than a string of letters, why wouldn't one simply memorize Melpoeme, rather than Melpoeme in addition to the image of Mel Gibson eating a pomegranate? It seems to me that rather than simply memorizing the thing to be remembered, we create extra redundancy and irony by, rather than memorizing the thing to be thought of, we are including the extra subset of memory tools with which we use to recall the wanted information.
Why memorize a string of objects to associate with, say the names of the chapters in a book when we could, without having a second set of trigger images, forgo the imagery and simply memorize the titles, straight-up?
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