Sleep Effect Memory Analysis
After reading both of the articles provided, the two memory techniques that I think would work best for me would be the sleep effect and the PQRST method. Both of these methods seem like they would help me the most because they are methods that I have used in the past that have helped. First I can use the sleep effect memory technique to help me for a test by studying every night before I go to sleep. If I study a little bit every night this will also help by using the spacing effect. Going directly to sleep after I have read the information I have studied will help keep it in my brain over night to help remember and understand it. If I use the sleep effect memory technique every night before I go to bed, I have a better chance of remembering
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Most of the time when I am studying for an exam I procrastinate and cram all of my studying in at the last second. This makes it harder to recall all of the information the next day. If I interpret the spacing effect into my studying habits, I will have a better chance of encoding and storing the information into my brain. I agree that shorter studying periods are better. Trying to remember a mass amount of information at once is pointless because there it nearly impossible to remember a mass amount of information all at once. I think that I will improve my performance on tests if I space out my studying time and study on multiples of days instead of a big one-day study session. My brain will have more time to process the information and details. Another bad study habit I have is that after I study, I feel as if I do not need to study anymore because I think I already know all of the information. The next day when I go to take the test I prove myself wrong because if I knew all of the information for the exam, I would have gotten a 100 instead of a lower grade. I can correct this bad study habit by practicing overlearning. Continuing to study the information even after I think I know it all will help me to catch all of the tiny details that I missed. It will also help to encode more of the information into my head. There is no such think as knowing it all so changing my studying habit to studying more and spaced out will help my to improve my testing knowledge. Both the spacing effect and overlearning are good ways to replace my bad studying
Most of the time when I am studying for an exam I procrastinate and cram all of my studying in at the last second. This makes it harder to recall all of the information the next day. If I interpret the spacing effect into my studying habits, I will have a better chance of encoding and storing the information into my brain. I agree that shorter studying periods are better. Trying to remember a mass amount of information at once is pointless because there it nearly impossible to remember a mass amount of information all at once. I think that I will improve my performance on tests if I space out my studying time and study on multiples of days instead of a big one-day study session. My brain will have more time to process the information and details. Another bad study habit I have is that after I study, I feel as if I do not need to study anymore because I think I already know all of the information. The next day when I go to take the test I prove myself wrong because if I knew all of the information for the exam, I would have gotten a 100 instead of a lower grade. I can correct this bad study habit by practicing overlearning. Continuing to study the information even after I think I know it all will help me to catch all of the tiny details that I missed. It will also help to encode more of the information into my head. There is no such think as knowing it all so changing my studying habit to studying more and spaced out will help my to improve my testing knowledge. Both the spacing effect and overlearning are good ways to replace my bad studying