Over Learning
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Hello students let us look another aspect of learning.
Dear students when you learn something and remember it, some kind of a memory trace is laid down in the brain. Whether you are able to retain a given fact depends upon two things:
• The strength of memory trace – which will depend upon how thorough your learning has been , and
• The strength of interfering factors which work to destroy or weaken the traces.
You can increase the strength of your memory traces by over learning your lessons taking precautions against subsequent interference, and by distributing your practice over a period of time.
Material is unlearned when it has not been studied for long enough for you to be able to recall it correctly. It is over learned when you continue to practice it after you can recall it 100percent correctly. For, example, if you take, 60 minutes to learn a particular chapter of history and you then carry on learning and reciting with the same attention as before, then you are over learning the material. Ideally you must give about 1/3rd time of the total time taken in learning a material for over learning.
As in the above case, a continuous learning and reciting for about 20 min (1/3rd of 60 min) may help you in retaining the material for very long period with revision. Over learning strengthen the memory traces. Things which nearly everyone has over learned world include the alphabate, the multiplication table and nursery rhymes. Motor skill are also over learnt. You don’t forget how to ride a bicycle or to type or swim after a long period of discussion.
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Dear students when you learn something and remember it, some kind of a memory trace is laid down in the brain. Whether you are able to retain a given fact depends upon two things:
• The strength of memory trace – which will depend upon how thorough your learning has been , and
• The strength of interfering factors which work to destroy or weaken the traces.
You can increase the strength of your memory traces by over learning your lessons taking precautions against subsequent interference, and by distributing your practice over a period of time.
Material is unlearned when it has not been studied for long enough for you to be able to recall it correctly. It is over learned when you continue to practice it after you can recall it 100percent correctly. For, example, if you take, 60 minutes to learn a particular chapter of history and you then carry on learning and reciting with the same attention as before, then you are over learning the material. Ideally you must give about 1/3rd time of the total time taken in learning a material for over learning.
As in the above case, a continuous learning and reciting for about 20 min (1/3rd of 60 min) may help you in retaining the material for very long period with revision. Over learning strengthen the memory traces. Things which nearly everyone has over learned world include the alphabate, the multiplication table and nursery rhymes. Motor skill are also over learnt. You don’t forget how to ride a bicycle or to type or swim after a long period of discussion.
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