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  1. Hi. My name is Samantha Berry, and I am a
  2. fellow CNN student like you.
  3. Um, today I'm here to teach you about the powerful
  4. world of our memory and to give you some tips
  5. and tricks on how to study better.
  6. But first, we need to remember better.
  7. My first tip is to use elaborate rehearsal when possible
  8. and elaborate rehearsals basically repeating information that you get And
  9. then, um, connecting the dots to something you previously no
  10. or like personal memories.
  11. So a great example of elaborate rehearsals when you first
  12. meet somebody and you want to remember their name.
  13. So if I meet somebody and their name is Kathy,
  14. I'm going to repeat their name a couple of times,
  15. three or four times, um, throughout our conversation, and then
  16. I'm going to be like, Wait, do I know what
  17. Kathy? Oh, my gosh.
  18. My sister's best friend was named Kathy in elementary school.
  19. There you go.
  20. And now that's another retrieval cue that my brain is
  21. going to use when I see this person again to
  22. remember her name.
  23. Oh, I try to use it all the time.
  24. The next thing I need to use is to keep
  25. yourself moving around and I'm guilty of this.
  26. We're all kind of tired and lazy, but if you
  27. get your blood flowing, your brain is going to work
  28. harder, and it's going to stay more focused.
  29. So try to take breaks, get up a little active
  30. move around, go outside.
  31. Keeping movement will keep your focus, and it will help
  32. you recall, because your brain is actively learning, not passively
  33. learning. Next is Tip three, which is to use pneumonic
  34. devices. Um, now these are things like acronyms, which is
  35. a great example, like Penn Dez.
  36. So please excuse my dear Aunt Sally, Funny little saying,
  37. But we can now remember the order of operations.
  38. Thanks to that.
  39. Same big corporations use this like McDonald's like Donna Donna.
  40. I'm loving it.
  41. Your brain will remember that phrase with McDonald's because it's
  42. a treatable queue for you.
  43. So try to make up your own little tunes on
  44. little jams.
  45. Um, and it will help you bring those memories forward
  46. in a fun little way.
  47. So now we need to avoid some things while studying,
  48. avoid at all costs, studying in front of distractions and
  49. temptations like your phone or TV YouTube that it will
  50. overwhelm your brain and you can't focus and it just
  51. waste your time.
  52. Next is to avoid studying to remember, but instead study
  53. to understand and build connections.
  54. Don't just memorize, build those retrieval cues.
  55. Build those connections because there will be possibly more tests
  56. later. And why waste your own time when you can
  57. get everything done in one sitting?
  58. So build connections and understand the information rather than just
  59. trying to memorize and go off the fly.
  60. Trust me, it'll save you time later and stress and
  61. then to avoid mass practice study sessions.
  62. Don't sit at your desk for 14 hours studying the
  63. same content.
  64. It will drive you insane, and you're going to feel
  65. burned out and frustrated.
  66. Break up your practice.
  67. Do interval practice sessions.
  68. Use different content to give your break your brain a
  69. break from math to English or English to science.
  70. Don't just do English flat out.
  71. You're going to get burnt out as well as take
  72. some breaks again.
  73. Keep moving, Get up, Take a little break here, maybe
  74. watch a show and then get back to it.
  75. It will make studying less stressful as well as more
  76. productive, and we're going to talk about operate conditioning because
  77. it's still about like, a relevant thing when it comes
  78. to studying.
  79. So operate conditioning is a type of associative.
  80. Learning were conditional organisms learn to associate behavior and its
  81. consequences. That's a mouthful, but let me break it down.
  82. Basically, we have positive consequences and negative consequences.
  83. For example, studying the positive consequence of studying is your
  84. better terms of your teacher because you're being a better
  85. student. Possibly better test score.
  86. You get satisfaction from finishing, studying and those test scores
  87. and you gain knowledge.
  88. Those are all positive consequences that will lead you to
  89. do the behavior studying once again.
  90. So that's that's what offering conditioning is next.
  91. We have observational learning now.
  92. Observation and learning is a little bit different.
  93. We've been doing it since birth is where we learn
  94. to watch others imitate or model what they do or
  95. say so.
  96. A great example is I'm going to show you how
  97. to change out this tape dispenser.
  98. Now. Some people genuinely don't know, so this is the
  99. type of learning they're going to use, so let's just
  100. do it.
  101. This is a tape tape dispenser.
  102. You're going to pull out the little black part with
  103. your finger.
  104. Pop it up, Grab your tape, press it back down
  105. till it clicks, and then pull out your tape.
  106. Easy. Right.
  107. Well, now you can now imitate or remodel what I
  108. had just shown you.
  109. Um, we've done this since we were born.
  110. Kids watch our expressions.
  111. Anybody else had, like, a little cousin that if you
  112. say about words, suddenly they say it.
  113. You're like, No, no, no, no.
  114. They were observation early, learning from you that had word.
  115. So that's some ways to get a better memory and
  116. to hopefully help you study better, thanks.