Eager to improve the brain functions of attention, working memory and long-term memory, attendees recently packed the auditorium at Covenant Village of Golden Valley to hear educational psychologist Linda Sasser, Ph.D. (center front). A 25-year educator, Sasser explained the acronym she uses as the key to her technique, PAVE: Pay attention, associate, visualize, elaborate. In the section on paying attention she suggested making meaningful associations and developing concrete images to remember names. Her examples made the audience laugh when she suggested, “Picture a locker full of tea bags to remember ‘Lockerty’ or imagine a cow who has lost his skis to recall ‘Laskowski.’”
About Covenant Village of Golden Valley
Covenant Village of Golden Valley, a faith-based, not-for-profit, continuing care retirement community, is located at 5800 St. Croix Ave. N., Golden Valley, Minn. It is administered by Covenant Retirement Communities, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit senior services providers. Covenant Retirement Communities serves 5,000 residents at 15 retirement communities nationwide and is a ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church. For more information on Covenant Village of Golden Valley, call (877) 804-7017 or visit www.CovenantVillageofGoldenValley.org.
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