Memory: Crash Course Study Skills #3

An essential part of learning and studying is remembering things, so this week Thomas explains some of how your memory works so that you can spend less time working against your memory’s limitations and more time playing to its real strengths.

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[Treowe_]

Can I nominate the person that started Crash Course as the "Most Awesome Person Ever" award?

[silverharloe]

I already forgot most of this video. I guess I'll watch it again in an hour, 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours...
And write the salient points on cards, and quiz myself with those cards. But not too much all at once.

[JeremiahTatola]

I forgot what he said. had to re-watch

[lukemeyers]

This is probably the most useful thing on YouTube

[claireh]

Pro-tip: If you have difficulty remembering a word or date, set it as your passcode.
That's how I can spell prosopagnosia

[thatchannelyoudontknow]

Story time. I was barely scraping a pass in my Physics class in High School. Like, we're talking I got a D on my mock exam. The rest of my class felt like they were totally screwed as well, because our teacher wasn't teaching us everything we needed to know to pass the exam. None of us were too happy about it.
Out of nowhere on one night after the mock exams had taken place, I decided that I would read through our entire Physics textbook and make notes of EVERYTHING, divided by formulas and the different sections of the subject, on Quizlet. I started working on it at midnight, finished at about 5 or 6am. I proceeded to send it to a few of my friends in those subjects, and asked them to forward it around. We all used it on a regular basis for revising.
I went from barely scraping a pass with a D to getting an A. And all of my friends who thought they were going to fail passed with As as well.
Don't underestimate the power of making your own notes and going over them repeatedly to strengthen your memory. Seriously.

[hellodolly]

My favorite science teacher taught us stuff the interactive way by coming up with stories and stuff. We had all short answer tests and everyone passed with A's. The school thought that her tests were too easy since everyone was doing good, but once they realized it was all short answer they realized she just had the best teaching method.

[waadoda]

Probably the most useful thing on YouTube

[maxfiialkovskyi]

Oh Good God, I Can't stress enough how important this is! This is what has to be mandatory education!
I knew most of this since high school, tho not the exact science of how it works precisely. I explain it a little simpler: "Memory can count only till 4. Memories grow when you don't look at them, but has a self-destruction timer on it. You reset the timer by recalling it, (not it looking up). The stronger the memory the longer is the timer"
and then you do following to memorize stuff:
1. Group information into bits of **4 obvious things**
2. Visually imagine one bit for 6 seconds
3. Recall
4. Wait 30 seconds. Recall.
5. Wait 1 minute. Recall.
6. 10 min. Recall.
7. 30 min. Recall.
8. 1 hr. Recall.
9. 3 hr. Recall.
10. 1 day. Recall a few times.
11. 2 days

12. 4 days
13. 7
14. 15
IF you fail anywhere THEN GOTO 1.


Last year I started preaching this thing to everyone I meet in my travels. I also always made an example by learning a bunch of random words in their language *while* teaching the method.
Thus I know Arabic, Chinese, Turkish and Kurdish numbers and a whole lot of people learned Russian ones.

[omarmoustafa]

Anyone else believes this is the most efficient and practical course that shall benefit us in our lives??

[NotZeex]

Who else looked behind them when he said "their are ninjas behind you"

[BossSev]

YES! THE DOORMAN! FROM ADVENTURE TIME! AND FINN AND JAKE IN THE BACKGROUND!

[AstroLizard]

6 thousand likes and 60 dislikes. That does accurately show how good this video was. Great work!

[senpaisnipeftw]

6:28 is that the amazing spiderman reference? (Stan lee as a librarian with headphones when spiderman and lizard are fighting)

[wokekoala]

i was actually thinking of civ 5 when he talked about caravels, nice

[notgate]

I've read 3 different memory books and have read a lot more online about different memory techniques and how it all works. You guys covered it perfectly. Really well done.

[siddhiraskar]

6:25 Is that Stan Lee cameo'ing' in crash course

[rayanrhomari]

Here's a tip:
If you can't concentrate while reading, read along with the audiobook.

[StubbornPrincessEmii]

This will really help with my medical terminology studies from my college class! Thanks, Thomas Frank! You're awesome + fantastic = awesomestic (made up word)!

[StevenandStefanie]

I'm going to try the notes at school notes at home method where I take sloppy notes in class and then re-do them all pretty at home. People said this works well for them, hope it does for me too