Link system can be described as a word linked to an image that looks like or sounds like the word making it easier to remember and recall the meaning of a word or words. Recently in psc 121 we have been discussing the idea of federalism. The word federal is right in the word, as in federal government. Which is what federalism focuses on, a strong central government. To add to this i then visualized an image of old presidents from many years ago who stressed the idea of federalism to keep this country from tearing apart.



I also used the link system for my history class. A famous trial in the united stated history known as the Scopes Trial was a term i was struggling to remember. Scopes was accused of teaching evolution which was against the law at that time. Scopes to me sounds like microscope, which can be related to evolution in that we study things through microscopes. The image i created in my head was a crazy professor a.k.a. Scopes, looking through a microscope finding out new things about our past. Using the link system really helped me to remember key terms i needed for my classes better than if i just tried to remember them by repetition or continually reading them over.

This was the closest image to what i saw in my head of a professor studying through a microscope.