Dogs Drink Milk while Lassie helps people

WHEN LEARNING facts or chunks of information I always used to try and memorize it without associating them together. I always found myself studying for hours and hours and forgetting things I had studied. Studying with note cards was helpful for me, however I never combined information or connected it to make remembering facts easier. I would just quiz myself until I knew it all. But when I started to make mnemonic devices for chunks of information, this is when remembering facts was 100 times easier. For example, in my PSC 121 class we learned about the problems of democracy. There are 5 reasons but when I would quiz myself I could only remember to list 3 or 4, even though I knew the fifth problem, I never remembered to list it. I made an acronym for the problems- Dogs Drink Milk Like Slobs. By remembering this sentence I will not only remember 5 problems, but also it is much easier for me to recall the problems by knowing the first letter of each one.

ANOTHER TOPIC I have trouble remembering in my PSC 121 class is Culture Wars. Whenever we are asked about this I find myself blanking out and not able to come up with an answer. I decided to LINK the questions with the answers. So when I am asked about the culture wars going on regarding class I immediately think of the dog Lassie, who always helped people, as does healthcare. Little reminders and connections like this are the thing I need to spark my memory and remember an answer.

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As I've stated before, I am the type of Learner who needs to constantly write information out to remember it all. With these little tricks, writing out and remembering every detail is much easier and makes learning simpler. The Action I took was creating acronyms and linking words to absurd phrases. These strategies make studying chunks of facts go much faster. The Materials I used were charts that laid out all of the connections neatly and in an organized manner. My Evaluation of these strategies is very positive! Anything that makes studying easier and faster is a great strategy in my book!