Hidden Causes - a Psychological Approach to Learning Detailed Ver. | 页面 7

Studying might not be your favorite word. It is often associated with late nights
working on your paper, cramming for tests last minute, and doing everything
possible to stay awake in class. But what is it actually for? Why do we torture
ourselves to get the best grade possible? When asked why they study, students
often answer with getting good grades, to make their parents happy. In order to do
that, they memorize the contents of their books, do revisions and exercise, and
other things that might help them to learn. But are these studying activities
effective? Eventually, those late nights are just used to review the materials and
knowledge that you already learn in class. You don't actually gain new knowledge
and skills. This is the difference between studying and learning. While studying is
reading, memorizing facts, and listening to lectures in school to learn about a
subject and get a good grade on the tests and exams, learning is a process where
someone gains knowledge by studying, experiencing, or teaching something.
We learn new and
different things to
change our
perspective on
something. Our
curiosity towards
something motivates
us to learn. When we
don’t have any
information on
(KellyMC, 2017)
something, we have the need to look for that missing information and implement
it into our knowledge, changing our perspective. It has been scientifically proven
by Herman Ebbinghaus that if we take more time to learn something. Sometimes,
we also learn when we are trying to fit in into a new environment and feel included
with the people around us. When we live in a foreign country for instance. We tend
to want to learn and understand the language that they speak so we can
communicate easily with our friends and the people around us. For us students,
most of our learning happens in school, where our teachers teach us new things.
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