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The ancient Greeks developed basic memory systems called mnemonics. The name is___from their Goddess of memory “Mnemosyne”. In the ancient world, a trained memory was an___ asset, particularly in public life. There were no___devices for taking notes, and early Greek orators(演说家) delivered long speeches with great___because they learned the speeches using mnemonic systems. The Greeks discovered that human memory is___ an associative process—that it works by linking things together. For example, think of an apple. The ___ your brain registers the word “apple”, it ___ the shape, color, taste, smell and___of that fruit. All these things are associated in your memory with the word “apple”___An example could be when you think about a lecture you have had. This could trigger a memory about what you’re talking about through that lecture, which can then trigger another memory___An example given on a website I was looking at follows: Do you remember the shape of Austria, Canada, Belgium, or Germany? Probably not. What about Italy, though? ___ You made an association with something already known the shape of a boot, and Italy’s shape could not be forgotten once you had made the association.
derived immense convenient accuracy largely instinct recalls texture This means that any thought about a certain subject will often bring up more memories that are related to it. The associations do not have to be logical. They just have to make a good link If you remember the shape of Italy, it is because you have been told sometime that Italy is shaped like a boot。