Learning By Repeating,,Learning By Repeating something over and over again. Examples include reviewing flash cards, listening to something several times on a tape, writing something over and over, going over the words of a speech again and again.
Mnemonic Strategies ,,It help you remember. This includes anagrams or abbreviations, poems or jingles, picturing items in different locations in a garden or other familiar place, or making a word picture of the item, (so catabolize becomes cat • a ball • lies), or matching words with fingers and toes.
Cognitive Mapping - forming a conceptual matrix for understanding. This is also called deep processing or mind-mapping.
Superlearning - you use multi-sensory modalities, emotion and imagination to fix information into memory. This is usually done in a light state of hypnotic trance, called an alpha state.
Tips for Successful Studying
• Relax before tests, and get into a calm state of mind. Anxiety shuts down the cerebral cortex, and locks you into the flight-fright mode of your limbic system. You don't think well in a state of panic, and you don't remember well, either.
• Get enough rest, so your mind is clear.
• Feed your brain before a test. Make sure you are getting sufficient choline and the other B-vitamins, phosphorus, essential fatty acids, good quality proteins and carbohydrates that are easily digestible.
• Study regularly throughout the week, not just at the last minute. Cramming is not a successful strategy to do well on a test.
• Put emotional problems out of your mind when you are in class, while studying and while test taking. Schedule time to think about your problems and work them out—just don't do this during your learning time.
• Have a regular, quiet place to study. Organize your study materials.
• Study with a group to go over the key concepts, and to quiz one another.
• Protect your study time. Don't allow others to distract you.
• Don't study with music, TV, or other noise in the background. It makes it harder to concentrate on your study material—and it may actively contaminate what you are trying to learn with extraneous, unrelated information.
• Set goals for each study session. Review what you have learned before retiring.
• Determine when is your best time to study. Try to study at those times if possible.
• Make study and learning a top priority. Say no to demands that take you away from studying.
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Get Understanding
When you study, study for mastery of the concepts of your topic. Start by having questions, by actively inquiring about your subject matter. You acquire knowledge by remembering information; understanding by seeing how this information fits together as a whole. Try asking questions like this as you do your study [We use as an example questions you may ask to study a Vocational Nursing textbook]:
1. What is the purpose of this body system or body part? How does it affect the body as a whole?
2. What is the function of this body part or system? What do its constituent parts do?
3. What are the gross structures of this body part or system? What are its parts called? What are its microscopic parts? What important biochemical molecules does it secrete or produce?
4. What is healthy or ordered functioning of this body part? What major tests measure its functioning? What are normal ranges of these tests?
5. How does this body part or system interact with other body systems? How do changes in the internal or external environment affect its functioning?
6. What are diseases or disordered functioning of this body part or system?
7. What tests or diagnostic procedures are used to determine the disease of this body part or system?
8. What medical procedures are used to restore normal functioning to this body part or system?
9. What medications are used to treat disease in this body part or system?
10. What nursing procedures will I use to help my patients get better? What are key points that I need to keep in mind to make sure my patient gets better?
11. How can I specifically apply this material in my clinical experience as a CNA or VN?
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