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+ Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart

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1) - 00:15 – Study break

• People can only focus for 25-30 minutes before focus declines (UMich study)
  • It’s not worth pushing yourself past that
  • 5 minutes breaks help reset and raise efficiency
    • Promotes reinforcement, that studying is rewarding since you got a break
  • Contradictory with school structure of 50 minutes, as most learning will only happen in first 30

2) 07:50 –  Reward system

• Reward at end of day

3) 10:19 –  Dedicated study area (Behavior Reinforcement)

• Our environment unconsciously influences our decisions
  • ex) If you are being asked a question while in a group, you will raise hand but if you are by yourself you will just speak
    • we don’t intend or consciously recognize this, it just happens, and the same applies to our learning environment
• Keep your studying place intended for studying
  • Separate it from the enviroment for traditional/other activities
  • If you can’t change physical environment, even something as subtle as a lamp can help
• Ensure that it is truly optimized for studying

4) 19:49 –  Rote memorization vs. Active learning

• Actively learn
• Know what you are learning
  • Facts vs concepts
    • facts can be relearned, concepts are more important
    • Need to understand concepts before memorizing facts

5) 32:49 –  Study groups

• Being in a study group allows you to teach others to reinforce understanding, and learn information through others

6) 33:58 – Highlighting books (Recognition vs. Recollection)

• Make sure you can actually recall information rather than recognizing it when coming across it
• If you have only practiced recognition and you are given a question that tests recollection, you will fail miserably

7) 36:37 –  Remembering  (Recollection) —-

• Solution to 6 is to test yourself constantly while studying to test if you remember what you are learning/studying

8) - 36:57 – Sleeping (REM  Sleep)

• 7-8 hours
• REM sleep solidifes learning

9) 39:09 –  Taking notes

• Important
• Do it right after class, or else you will forget some of the details
  • If you forget, ask students or prof

10) 41:20 – Active Recitation

• Helps you determine whether you really understand a subject
• Teaching is a strong way of learning

11) 43:22 – Study from books (SQ3R = Survey,  Question,  Read,  Recite,  Review)

• Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review
• Refer to SQ3R Reading Technique

12) 47:42 – Mnemonics (Acronyms, Coin Sayings, Interactive Images)

• The more provacative and creative, the more it will stick
  • Think of the most absurd connections
    • Carbs is 4 cals since a car has 4 wheels
      • A pro car is a kind of car, also 4
      • fat cat 9 lives
• Strong way to memorize facts
• Interactive images can include Memory Palace

Thoughts/Questions

• I already like to learn about study techniques and tips so some of these things like the study breaks, elaborating on ideas, feynmann technique, sq3r was already familiar
• I’m going to try the lamp method seeing as I have different rgb lights and forms of lighting accessible to me
  • I already change my lighting after I wake up from a nap and 1-2 hours prior to bed, so on top of that I can use one of my rgb lamps to indicate I am in the study zone
    • ex) Pink can represent studying, green can represent break
• I’ve been feeling a bit behind on my classes so having that reminder to take my breaks seriously and to reward myself can help me put in more hours while still enjoying the process
• Need to try and incorporate SQ3R, or at least the quick glancing and questioning part of it
• Instead of fancy acronyms and connections, I can just be more understanding of a word’s definition for my math-based courses
  • ex) A linear combination is the combination of points that form a line, hence why its called that

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Created:: 2022-01-19 01:01

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