Study Skills Flashcards
Procrastination
Involves puttting off an activity to do something less important because our brain values instant reward/gratification more than a future reward or delayed gratification
Tips to stop procrastination
- Top 3 tasks
- Anchor your priorities
- Impact evaluation: prioritise activities that will have the most impact first
- Make rewards immediate with temptation bundling
- Plan fir the future
Hurry sickness
Taking on too much and never having any time out causes stress. Feeling like you need to cram your days full of productive stuff and never having any breaks
MoSCoW
Must: the things that you need to do, the things you must prioritise
Should: these things have high importance and are critical but come second to “must” items
Could: things shoukd be done if possible, however you could technically get by without doing them
Would (or won’t): things that are “nice-to-haves” but not essential
Quadrant personalities
- The procrastinator: person spends most time distracted and usually delays everything and leaves it to last minute
- Prioritiser: means they focus on their time and energy into things that they prioritise
- Yes man: person who goes with the flow and lets life happen
- Slacker: lazy and unmotivated, always on tv, video games and social media
Timeboxing
Involves setting a specific amount of time to do a specific task, maximises productivity and focus
Generosity burnout/collaborative overload
If you do not protect your priorities and are constantly putting the needs of others first, you are risk depleting your time and energy and ultimately burn out
Steps to avoid generosity burnout
- Set boundaries
- Help proactively
- Prioritise
Training yourself for single tasking
Start small: start single tasking on tasks you enjoy
Break it down: if you have a big task, break it down into smaller tasks
Clear the clutter: remove anything that can pose as a distraction
Set unrealistic deadlines: the tighter your deadline, the more you solely focus on one task
Metacognition
A form of higher order thinking that involves analysing ones own cognitive processes
Neuroplasticity
Refers to the fact that our learning capability is like plastic, not fixed or static, but instead cam be moulded and shaped to continually learn new things
Memory
Info first enters your brain into your sensory memory and then, if focused, into your short term memory (STM). If you process and review this info, it is transferred into LTM
Working memory and cognitive load theory
Working memory is the part of the memory that is actively working to understand new info. CLT says our working memory van only process a certain amount of info at once
Forms of ltm
Declarative: the ability to recall and verbalise what you learnt
Non-declarative: innate that you learn and remember without needed to verbalise what you have learnt
Organisational systems
Note storage
Calendar
To do lists