Reflection Paper In Psychology

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For just under a month I have recopied my notes in psychology in an attempt to understand how the mechanics of deep learning work. Prior to this experience I had been underachieving, having gotten a B and a C on my first and second tests respectively. However once I began to copy down my notes for psychology every day and added in my own comments to them, I found that my test taking went from being sub-par to exemplarily, having received the highest grade in the class on the third test. I attribute this to a few changes to my studying style: First I reread my notes, this helped information sink in with greater effectiveness than the act of passively copying notes down as I do in class. Furthermore when I was retaking my notes I would find …show more content…

Although initially I did not rewrite the notes I had scribbled in these books because of time constraints just before the test I went through all of the parts that were pertinent to the test and recopied the notes section by section. However instead of copying everything I only copied the material that I deemed necessary so that I would have that stuff in my head during the test. Two reasons I think this helped greatly was that I reviewed my notes, something I had not done quite as in depth before. Secondly, because I tend to read the chapters before the week begins I do not know what I should be paying attention for, however it was only until after I had heard all the lectures that I recopied the notes from the books so when I was recopying notes I had a better idea of what I should be looking for so that I could write down and analyze the most integral parts that my professor, Larry White, would likely include on the tests. What also probably helped was that I recopied the notes for the books just before I went to sleep, according to Dr. Gordon Feld and Dr. Susanne Diekelmann people proceed through a process called active system consolidation in which new memories are “re-watched” while both the hippocampus and the cortex are active. (Feld and Susanne) By replaying the memories over and over humans form stronger memories, …show more content…

Though I have no first hand knowledge on the matter Dr. White assured me that it is possible to recopy notes in these quantitative courses to get a stronger understanding of the material because you are still doing the same thing, thinking more deeply about the material.

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