Study Less Study Smart

I'm it on YouTube looking for study advice he probably come across this video called study less study smart Ellis is recorded lecture from Professor Doctor Marty Lobdell who was a former psychology professor at Pierce College and wanted to give his thoughts and how to Be an Effective student and the video came out when I was a sophomore in college and I wanted to watch it but the problem was it was an entire hour long and I could just never make the time video so I want to do with this video is to give you about 80 to 90 percent of the value pack in the lecture in about one-tenth of the time to do that myself and took detailed notes on it and if you want those notes I've actually included them at the end of this video but first let's get into the tips the reading to staying after about 25 or 30 minutes or efficiency starts to really taper off and that's why the advice to Simply study more is not effective at all instead you want to break your study sessions until about 20 to 30 minute chunks and after those are done take five minute breaks for you do something fun or at least away from your studies and also want to study sessions are done for the entire day you want to give yourself a real tangible reward for doing a doctor Lobdell says in lecture reinforcement of positive things built good study habits and as an added benefit your training yourself to study so as you keep doing this you're going to be able to study for longer and longer on each session virtue is to create a dedicated study area and the reason for this is that our environment the context that were in largely determines our Behavior so think about when you're in class when the professor questions the entire class you instinctively raise your hand mission to do it will you studying area is the exact same if you do it in a place where your condition to do other things like sleep play video games or hang out with friends it's going to be really hard to get into your studying what you want to do is find an area that is specifically used for studying so the context of the situation makes it easy for you to get into your studies study act and its best do memorization or reading and rereading chapters from your book is to first ask yourself before studying what is it that I'm learning and we're learning is going to fall into one of two categories either fax or concepts concept is something like what what does this particular bone in human body do if you understand it and a fact is just something you remember what the name of this phone is now concepts are more important than facts because we understand Kid Concepts when you don't have access to Google usually but still concepts are going to be more important to learn first not the best way to learn these Concepts in to be sure you know them is to put them in your own words test yourself and learn actively and there's one thing he gives as an example which I think is one of the most important parts in the entire lecture and it's his example about highlighting that most students know not to highlight entire sections of the book because if you do that you're basically highlighting nothing at all but it if you highlight really important terms and then you go back after your first read and highlight session and study them and just simply recognize something you highlighted before and say I know it when you're getting into this dangerous territory where you don't know whether you actually recalling something or simply recognizing it then you would bring his very good at recognizing things we can recognize people's faces even if we haven't seen them in a long time but the difference between recognition and recollection is that recognition requires an initial trigger Accu and if you're in a test there is no Trigger or Q you have to actually put forth from your memory so contested make sure that you're actually recalling something instead of his recognizing it you need to quiz yourself you need to do active studying active learn the fourth tip is to take more effective notes and he's really after class as soon as possible and truly as soon as possible flush out your notes a bit add some more to them so you can actually solidify the concepts in your mind and if your fuzzy on something ask him if they're classmate who also took good notes or go to office hours or wait to the next lecture and ask the professor before he starts if you can clarify something that you don't really have a good grasp on FIFA tip is to summarize or teach what you learn and he says the best way to actually learn something is to teach it and reason for this is twofold number one it's a great form of active studying because you're forcing your brain to recall all the information so you can basically summarize it for somebody and number two you're really making sure that you fully understand the subject you're explaining it to somebody that's absolutely no idea about the topic and they're coming out from a beginner's perspective than you really going to have an easy time of pinpointing gaps in your own understanding different R6 is to use your textbooks correctly and in this part of lecture he goes over the sq3r method which stands for survey question read recite and review and as I talked about in my active reading video I think overarching cyst stems like this are actually kind of cumbersome and time-consuming but I do think it's important that you take individual portions of you questions final tip is to use mnemonics from studying fat supposed to and as a result a lot of students often turn to memorization to remember call three specific types of mnemonics in the videos three are acronyms things like roygbiv for remembering the color spectrum sayings things like in 1492 Columbus sail the ocean blue and the third one which book and Doctor Lobdell think is the best one image Association of the way to think about images sociation images in your head in the more emotionally or going to be able to recall that that is my summary of dr. lobdale selection the entire hour long video I haven't went down to the description otherwise you can get my notes and other things in the end card thanks for watching this video and I will see you in the next one hey guys thanks for sticking around the end of my video now you want to get even more study tips I made a video about