i am studying psychology at college but cant seem to remember any of the stuff i learned the week before?

Question

has any body got any advice on how to keep the information in my head

Answer 1

What helped me was to read the textbook, listen to lectures, and then imagine the concepts as applied to my own experience.
Hawthorne effect: I can remember working faster at my first job, just because my supervisor was nearby.

Group think: Sit in any staff meeting as they decide to order lunch. A friend of mine was really craving Chinese, but everyone else wanted pizza. Because she thought she was going to be voted down, she decided not to upset everyone with her request and chipped in for pizza.

Door-in-the-face technique: My husband does this A LOT. First, he asks if he can buy something pretty expensive (like some power tool) and I say no. Then he asks for something smaller (a DVD set or smaller power tool) (which he wanted more all along) and I often say, "I'd rather you get the DVD than the power tools" when originally I probably would have said "no" to both.

Social loafing: I can recall working on group projects in high school. I ended up doing most of the work while my otherwise hard-working classmates did nothing, but took credit for my work.

Answer 2

Do not worry what you have learned is still in your head somewhere and it will all click in to place at some point.
Keep good notes of referance to read later on. Try and remember anything unusual that happenend in the lesson a debate on a topic as remembering things like that helps me remember the rest.
Psychology is not an easy subject to remember as it has so much to the subject how ever it is one of those that comes together in the end.
Try not to worry to much as it makes it worse.

Answer 3

Staying calm and re-reading your notes every once in a while will really help.

Get someone to take your notes and ask you questions, you'll be surprised at how much you can explain.

It's in there, but you need to be prompted to recall it. Every time I have exams I think I don't know a thing, but every time I get in to the exam room it all comes tumbling out and I pass. Just stay confident and keep getting people to ask you questions!

Answer 4

Maybe you should have another look at your memory models. What needs to happen before the transfer from short term to long term memory? Put the theory into practice during revision.
--Psychology graduate.

Answer 5

don't worry, smokin' weed only affects the short term memory...It will all come back to you in the long term, for finals.
* If I write stuff down, I seem to retain it much better.

Answer 6

Pay more attention!

Answer 7

eat some food that contain high magnesium...it may help...:)

Answer 8

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