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To improve the effectiveness of your
learning and memory, you should develop structures for your knowledge and
engage in daily review.
Developing Structures
You learn automatically,
associating new ideas, concepts, and definitions with the ideas you
already know. These associations are tied together into structures,
bodies of information composed of ideas that fit together. You can
support this function by prestructuring related information during class,
in your mind and in your notes. Developing structures helps you to
recall ideas, as well as the details associated with them, whenever the
knowledge is needed.
Daily review of material is the
best recall method for structured information. You recall what you
hear or see often over time. Several types of daily review are
described below.
a. Notes
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review your notes from
lectures and reading every day for 5 days
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review all notes at least
once a week
b. Study cards
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review 5-10 at a time, 5-6
times per day
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leave an hour between each
review
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place the cards you know in a
separate stack
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once a week, review all your
cards
c. audio study cards
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make a list of the details
you wish to learn
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press Record and state the
item to be learned, silently read the definition or identification,
then repeat the item and its identification out loud
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to study, listen to each
item, and during the pause that follows, recite the definition or
identification
d. recording of complicated
ideas
organize the information you
wish to learn and record it
listen to the tape when you
have no time to review your notes
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use this method for concepts
and relationships too complex to summarize on note cards
e. relaxed review
organize the information you
wish to learn and record it
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listen to the tape while in a
reclined position, thinking relaxing thoughts, and playing additional
background music if you wish
f. computer generated flash
cards
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use power point to make a set
of electronic flash cards
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make one slide a vocabulary
word or term
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make the next slide its
corresponding definition
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time the transitions to give
yourself enough time to orally state the definition before it flashes
on your screen
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