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Memory and related learning principles

 

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Principles of short-term and long-term memory.

«This principle of long-term memory may well be at work when you recite or write the ideas and facts that you read. As you recite or write you are holding each idea in mind for the four or five seconds that are needed for the temporary memory to be converted into a permanent one. In other words, the few minutes that it takes for you to review and think about what you are trying to learn is the minimum length of time that neuroscientists believe is necessary to allow thought to go into a lasting, more easily retrievable memory.» 1

While you try learning spelling of words in the targeted vocational vocabulary using Spelling list feature, mechanism of short- and long-term memory automatically gets engaged. It works in the way of contributing involvement of sensory abilities as listening to a pronunciation, typing, analyzing spelling while entering data, seeing and reading word definition.

Scrolling through the records of your former attempts to write correctly any individual item of your unsettled word list on the Word logs page, provides you with retrospective look on a consistency of particular rule you execise with. Doing it surely contributes allot to memorization of information in well structured, easily retrievable, long lasting form.

Understanding new material.

«First and most important, you must make sure that you understand new material before trying to remember it. A good technique to ensure understanding is to recite or write the author's ideas in your own words. If you cannot, then you do not understand them. The conclusion: you cannot remember what you do not understand. In other words, you cannot form a clear and correct memory trace from a fuzzy, poorly understood concept.»1

Understanding the spelling of any given new word is important for its use without errors and misconceptions. Utilizing editable hints incorporated in the page Word logs would outfit you with more effective tool for organizing and structuring spelling related semantic data. It provides you also with capabilities of storing your input and retrieving it down the road for the purpose of comparing and further analysis.

Getting it right the first time.

«We have learned that all remembering depends on forming an original, clear neural trace in the brain in the first place. These initial impressions are vitally important because the mind clings just as tenaciously to incorrect impressions as it does to correct impressions. Then we have to unlearn and relearn.»1

The principle of over learning.

«After you have recited a lesson long enough to say it perfectly, if you continue reciting it a few times more, you will over learn it. A well known psychologist and researcher, Ebbinghaus, has reported that each additional recitation (after you really know the material) engraves the mental trace deeper and deeper, thus establishing a base for long-term retention. For many people over learning is difficult to practice because, by the time they achieve bare mastery, there is little time left and they are eager to drop the subject and go on to something else. But reciting the material even just one more time significantly increases retention, so try to remember this and utilize the technique when you can.»1

Over learning is good to boost a confidence in comprehending a new concept and retaining significant load of data for a prolonged period of time. Word logs, Spelling list, Editing vocational vocabulary page, and Grouping vocabulary page contain some devices to support this principle. Easy excess to your individual data snippets entices coming back to the same piece of information again and again.

Remembering.

«According to several recent studies, learning which involves memorization of a unit of material begins slowly, then goes faster, and finally levels off. In other words, the amount learned per unit of time is small at first, then increases, and then becomes small again. This finding contrasts with older studies which showed that learning was rapid at first, then became slower until it leveled off.

Even though a person continues to study, he may expect to encounter periods when there seems to be little or no gain. Such plateaus in learning may be due to several causes such as fatigue, loss of interest, or diminishing returns from using the same inefficient methods. Another explanation of plateaus is that they represent pauses between stages of understanding; when the student acquires a new insight, he can move on. Sometimes the lower stage of an understanding or a skill may actually interfere with progress to a higher level. For example, learning to read by individual letters of the alphabet interferes with learning to read by words. Learning to read word-by-word delays reading by phrases or sentences.»1

The use of this top importance principle is alleviated by providing means to browsing your customized information as well as providing insight for a given datum of the choice by means of integrating into online services elsewhere on the web.

References.

  1. Published by Inteligen, Inc.. Retrieved on February 10, 2011.

 

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