Overview
Memories may create unique, reusable pathways in the brain along which signals flow.
Attached is an article on hacking your brain. These are some of the best study hacks to help your brain remember information. Memory is a muscle. Get it in shape. This well help you to remember quicker and more easily. This will help you in your exams and in your life. I have also included two steps from another article that are beneficial.
Instructions: Read the hacks, then choose and describe two hacks that you feel may be helpful to you in improving your memory muscle. Which one do you feel you can incorporate in your study habits now? Explain how you will begin using that hack for the remainder of the semester.
20 Study Hacks to Improve Your Memoryhttps://www.goconqr.com/en/examtime/blog/study-hacks/
7 Lessons on How to Hack Your Own Brain
5. Don’t put too much faith in your own memories. The number of eyewitness accounts and identifications that have been proved wrong by DNA or other evidence is only one example of how unreliable human memory is, as psychologist Elizabeth Loftus describes in her TED Talk. Not only that, it’s surprisingly easy to implant false memories in people, as some psychologists have unintentionally done when they thought they were unearthing repressed memories. So think twice next time you’re “sure” about something you remember.
6. Surround yourself with people you want to emulate. Everybody cheats, at least a little, at least some of the time. An elaborate series of experiments explores just how much and when, as described by behavioral economist Dan Ariely in a thought-provoking talk. One intriguing finding: People are more likely to cheat if they see someone doing it who they consider part of their own group, such as someone wearing a sweatshirt with their school’s logo. If the cheater is wearing a different school’s logo, it has no effect. On the other hand, people are less likely to cheat if they’ve been asked to recite the Ten Commandments–whether or not they are religious, and even if they can’t remember most of them. Obviously, our ideas about right and wrong are not as fixed as we think they are. We’re highly suggestible, and easily influenced by the people around us. We should select those people carefully.
7. Learn to delay gratification. In a Stanford experiment, 4-year-olds were left alone in a room with a marshmallow. If they could resist eating it for 15 minutes, they were told, they’d be given a second one as well, speaker and author Joachim de Posada tells the audience in this short and entertaining talk (complete with hidden-camera footage of the kids). Only about a third of the kids had the self-discipline to resist. When researchers followed up more than a decade later, those who had were significantly more successful than those who had succumbed. There’s a lesson here for us all.
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