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256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1992
"Before starting to study, I asked myself, why am I reading the text? What is my purpose?Was it to learn about educational psychology? No! I was taking the exam to get four college credits in order to keep my job. Passing the test was my purpose, not learning the material. With this in mind, I knew that important information about educational psychology would not appear on the exam, so I could safely skip studying any items that were on an inappropriate learning level along with any extremely hard or easy material. Also, information that wouldn’t fit into a multiple-choice test would be missing. If my purpose was to learn about educational psychology, the focus of my reading would be quite different than the focus I would need to pass a test on educational psychology.
"It is easy to train your other senses to retain information if you make a mistake about a concept or definition written on one of your index cards. Take a legal-size writing pad and write the concept or definition that you incorrectly identified 25 times. Saying the concept or definition aloud while writing it down has a profound influence on many regions of your brain.
The visual region of your brain records the information, but you are also storing the information in other regions that previously were ignored. The motor centers connected to your writing hand store the information. Speaking the information aloud stores the information in the motor centers connected to your vocal chords, tongue, and lips, as well as stimulating your ears and the regions of the brain controlling hearing. More regions of your brain will actively store important information when using this technique. Place any index cards you have incorrectly identified on a pile separate from the index cards that you have correctly identified. When you have finished testing yourself on each index card, return to the index cards you have incorrectly identified and shuffle them. This ensures a new random order to these index cards. Again, test your recall of these index cards. If you make a mistake, again write down the correct answer 25 times while speaking it aloud. Place the index cards you have correctly identified on the completed pile, and practice repeatedly the meanings of the other index cards until you can correctly identify all of them. Using this technique, you eventually will remember the most difficult concepts and definitions."
'Turn your study session into a creativity session by making up songs, poems, and jingles using your key information in their lyrics. Your stimulated mind will actually enjoy learning the information, though the data you must study remains the same.'