This is called creative
girl attempts to fit in to the shoes of an analytical thinker.
I couldn’t blog yesterday because my brain was attempting to
think analytically all day while studying, and I’m not joking. Unfortunately, I don’t have a photographic
memory and I don’t have the ability to just hear a term and know it, which
makes it really hard for me to study and memorize straight-up definitions.
I have to see what
I’m studying, which can be a bit difficult when it comes to psychology since it
is a study of thought processes.
Basically, thoughts are unseen no matter what, so how am I (a visual
learner) supposed to learn what everything means without being able to see
it?
The solution dawned on me last night.
I could draw it. I
ended up making charts, graphs, pictures, tables… all in color. By drawing them and visually reproducing the
facts I memorized them and learned them much quicker. I also made various mnemonic sayings and
analogies for the terms.
Will thinks I’m ridiculous.
“Why don’t you just say the term for what it is and learn it like
that?”
I probably explained numerous times that I simply can’t do that to save my life. Even flash cards don’t work very well for
me. When we discussed the meaning of
cultural “separation” he gave a very point-blank definition and I went a very
roundabout way of explaining how someone was on an island and didn’t want to
swim in the water with the rest of the world.
(Or something like that. The
point is, I actually remembered what it meant because of the silly analogy I
came up with!)
He just looked at me like I was crazy.
I studied my notes several times through, reviewed my
colorful tables and charts, and then called it a night.
The next morning I woke up and slightly surprised myself
with the realization that I remembered a lot of the things I had studied. I was able to let myself relax during
breakfast and laugh a lot. There’s
nothing worse than going into a test with a bad mood burdening you.
There were only a few questions that caused me to
second-guess myself.
Otherwise, I felt like a pro.
My crazy learning techniques paid off.
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