Study Skills For College Students - Study Less, Remember More!
May 14th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
College is one of the most important undertakings in your life. You can spend 3, 4, 5 hours or more studying every single day! What if you could dramatically reduce your required study time, and remember everything you study?
Luckily, there is a better way! You already have the potential to memorize tremendous amounts of material in one sitting! Memory is a skill, and it needs to be developed. Just as how you can’t get in physical shape by reading a book, you can’t get in mental shape by reading books about memory improvement. Training is the only way to get into shape, and training is the only way to improve your memory!
If you really want to improve your memory, the first step is to understand how your brain works. The brain uses several different processes to handle information. The thinking, memorization, and remembering processes.
Thinking Process:
The thinking process mainly consists of visual images. We think with images. This is such a natural process that you might not even realize that it happens, but information makes sense to us only if it can be represented with visual images. For example, here are two sentences:
- The book is on the table. When you read that sentence, an image of a book on a table was generated in your mind. In other words, the sentence evoked images in your mind. This is how you understand this sentence. Compare this to our second sentence:
- The qwimjal is on the parchik. You don’t get any images from this sentence. With no visual representation, you don’t understand it.
Memorization Process:
The process of memorizing information is completely connected with process of thinking. If you are able to ‘translate’ information into visual images, you can easily and efficiently memorize it. You will have an easier time memorizing the sentence ‘The book is on the table’ than the sentence ‘The qwimjal is on the parchik’.
Let’s quickly examine just how your brain actually memorizes information. When you read the sentence ‘The book is on the table’, the images of ‘book’ and ‘table’ came into your mind, and a connection between those images was formed. Connections are created when two images are viewed together simultaneously in your mind.
Remembering Process:
All information is connected. When one information element in a connection is stimulated, the connected element is activated, and you remember.
Let’s look again at our two sentences. If tomorrow I asked you the question ‘What is on the table?’, the connected information element is stimulated, and you would remember ‘book’. If, however, I asked you ‘What is on the parchik?’, there is no connection for your mind to grab hold of. With no connection, no recall is possible.
This is a simplified explanation of memory and how your brain works. For free memory-improvement tips, tricks, and techniques, along with more in-depth articles, visit these additional resources:
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