Association

Association involves joining two items together to form a connection.  New pieces on information can be joined, or new information can be joined to what you already know. 

Examples of association

Pegging

One example of association is ‘pegging.'  This is the process by which you associate a predetermined peg word with a word or phrase you are trying to remember.  The peg word becomes a prompt for recalling the new information.

Loci

Another example of association is ‘loci.'  This is the process by which information to be remembered is associated with some well known, visualised location (for example, your room, garden or office).  The two basic steps of loci are:

1. determining a familiar location and a series of items within it
2. visualising the items to be remembered associated with the loci. 

An example of how loci may be used is an oral presentation where steps to the talk are remembered through location prompts in a specified sequence.