Study Skills For College Students – Remember Everything You Study!
College is a serious investment in your future. Some students will end up spending 6+ hours every day outside of class studying, and do this for years! 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. You can’t get in shape by reading a book about lifting weights, and you can’t improve your memory by reading a memory book. The only way to get into shape is to work out, and the only way to improve your memory is through practical training!
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 is only understood if it evokes images in your mind. 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 was represented by visual images. This is how you understand this sentence. Compare this to our second sentence:
- The qwimjal is on the parchik. Your mind has no images to relate with this sentence. With no visual representation, you don’t understand it.
Memorization Process:
The memorization process is directly connected with the thinking process. If you can represent information with visual images, you can memorize it easily and quickly. You will have an easier time memorizing the sentence ‘The book is on the table’ than the sentence ‘The qwimjal is on the parchik’.
Now let’s examine exactly how your brain memorizes information. When you read the sentence ‘The book is on the table’, the information is ‘translated’ into visual images in 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 return to our examples. 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 would have been no understanding, no image-representation, and no information connection. With no connection, no recall is possible.
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