Long Term Memory

There are several ways to test ones long term memory abilities. In my Psychology class out teacher told us to try and remember a list of words in which she was going to read us. We werent aloud to write any of them down until she was finished and said it was okay. the way that i was able to remember the words was by repeating them to myself a couple times then adding on the next word and repeating that as well. after we wrote down the words she asked the class what types of methods we had used to remember all the words. the most common answer was that they had made a story with the words in order to remember them. i was intrigued with this. she did the same example again a few days later but with different words, and i tried to make a story out of it. i found that making a story with the words worked better for me than repeating them to myself over and over. so i have now learned a new way in which i am able to store and remember information