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1. HOW TO BECOME A MORE
EFFECTIVE LEARNER
Tips from Psychology to Improve Learning Effectiveness & Efficiency
(Adapted from Kendra Cherry, About.com Guide)
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2. Basics to Improve Your
Memory
 Improve your focus
 Avoid cram sessions
 Structure your study time
 Good feeding
 Enough Sleep
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3. Keep Learning and Practicing
 Gray matter in the brain!
 Learn!
 Practice!
 Rehearse!
 Memory should be organized but fluid not
frozen!
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4. Learn in Multiple Ways
 Record and Listen
 Describe to friend(s)
 Ask friend to describe
 Taking notes
 Draw mind (concept) map
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5. Teach What you’ve Learned to
Friends
 In a study group
 Idea of sharing
 Write a blog post
 Update facebook status
 Participate a group discussion
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6. Always Utilize Previously Learned
Information to Promote New Learning
 Ideas from Chemistry 1
 Ideas from chapter 0
 Ideas from Previous chapters
 Ideas from previous sections
 Relational learning
 Always relate new information to things that
you already know
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7. Gain Practical Experiences
 Practice in calculation
 Practice in doing exercise
 Practice in reading real life literatures (IRC,
websites)
 Talk to other lecturers
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8. Look Up for Answers, Rather
than Struggle to Remember
 Go to Glossary
 Go to Index of the text
 Go to Dictionary
 Go toWikipedia
 Go to the websites
 Trying to remember will only increase the
likeliness that you will forget again in the
future, because trying to remember just learn
the “error state” not the correct response.
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9. Understand How You Learn
Best
 Learning Habits and Learning Styles are
unique to everybody.
 Develop learning strategies
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10. Use Testing to Boost
Learning
 Every Assignments, Quizzes andTests can be
used to feedback your learning
 Feedback for Final Exam.
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11. Stop Multitasking
 Multitasking makes learning less effective!!
 Focus your attention for a scheduled learning
time
 Source of multitasking:TV, cell phone, game,
chatting, other distractors…
 Multitasking makes the organization of
knowledge in the brain disorganized or
loosen…
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