Resources For This Podcast

Previous Episodes of The Psych Files Which Are Helpful to Psychology Students:

• History of Psychology: Hudson River Psychiatric Center Interview

• Research and Statistics in Psychology: Why Statistics Make Us Queasy

• Research and Statistics in Psychology: What is Falsifiability?

• BioPsychology: Brain Development During Erikson’s Eight Stages

• Learning: Positive and Negative Reinforcement Defined

• Learning: Reinforcement and Your Bowling Style

• Development: Erik Erikson and his Eight Stages of Life

• Motivation: Intrinsic Vs. Extrinsic Motivation

• Therapy: Freud’s Defense Mechanisms

• Social Psychology: Blaming the Victim

• Social Psychology: Cognitive Dissonance Explained

• Social: What Really Happened to Kitty Genovese?

Those two “secrets” to doing well in psychology or any other learning task are:

• Distributed Practice – spread out your study time!

• Organize – use concept maps, outlines, re-write your notes, personalize the material, etc. In other words, be active with the material and it will stick in your brain.

The research article on how organizing the material we need to learn resulted in higher test grades than just reading it or reviewing it is called, “Effect of Quality and Quantity of Study on Student Grades” by Donald J. Dickinson and Debra Q. O’Connell and it appeared in the Journal of Educational Research, v83 n4 p227-31 Mar-Apr 1990.

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