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nublet765:
--- Quote from: baruhara on May 28, 2012, 04:21:02 pm ---Preparing myself for failing psychology, sigh.
My favourite team is the Vancouver Canucks, and we all know how the Canucks' luck is when it comes to winning the Stanley Cup.
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Yeah :(
LA played well though - and we were missing Daniel :'( That hurt us a bunch. Losing at home didn't help either.
baruhara:
--- Quote from: altuixde on May 28, 2012, 10:17:46 pm ---Then I guess the course you're taking is different from the one I took. Mine was all qualitative, no math. Are they teaching you how to do statistical analysis of experimental research?
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We're memorising 10 core studies of psychology, and all the details about them. Asch, Milgram, Buss, Rosenhan etc., and we have to memorise the context & aims, the procedures & participants, the findings & conclusions, the methodology evaluation and alternative evidence for each.
JNiles:
Hurray for Milgram and shocking!
altuixde:
--- Quote from: baruhara on May 29, 2012, 06:44:21 am ---We're memorising 10 core studies of psychology, and all the details about them. Asch, Milgram, Buss, Rosenhan etc., and we have to memorise the context & aims, the procedures & participants, the findings & conclusions, the methodology evaluation and alternative evidence for each.
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It might help to put all the numbers you need to memorize into a table (with two columns: descriptions on the left and numbers on the right), memorize the table, and then the first thing you do when taking the exam is write the table from memory.
Here's a way to memorize the table: first make the table, then cover it up so you can't see it, wait 20 seconds, then write as much of it as you can from memory. Study the table again (or even write it again, not from memory), cover it up, wait 20 seconds, then write as much of it as you can from memory. Keep repeating this until you've got it memorized. Waiting 20 seconds is to clear your short term memory. If it's in short term memory when you try to recall it, you can't be sure that it's in long term memory, where you want it.
You can also practice making the motion of typing numbers you want to remember on a numeric keypad. Doing this puts that information in motor memory. I guess it's backup motor memory, since there's some motor memory in the process of writing the numbers with a pen too.
Hopefully my methods aren't too flawed. It's already tomorrow, so there may not be enough time to get all the numbers in. Anyway, good luck on the exam!
baruhara:
^ Oh, I use headmagnet.com for figures! I know how to try and memorise them, but for some reason, I just really can't. They never stay in my head.
Anyway, the exam went... alright. I've probably got an E or a D, but my A from the last unit should bring that up to a C, maybe.
Thanks for the well-wishes. I'm sure it helped the questions I at least knew how to answer on the paper, instead of, like, Gardner & Gardner. I had a lot of trouble with Bennett-Levy & Martaeu, Loftus & Palmer and Langer & Rodin. I managed to remember some names, but no figures at all;;
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