Becoming a Better Student

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It has been decided to concentrate on the aspects of psychology which were found successful in connection with education. Learning as a process is a component of all behavioural and mental states together with life experiences. Some people are considered as better than others when it comes to learning and it has always been an interesting issue what exactly makes it so. In a theory, successful learning requires ability to acquire and store new knowledge in a way which enables us of further use and application. All these processes would not be possible without memory which provides us with certain capacity. Hence, we have to draw form the attainable sources and learn how to access and work with this opportunity in a desirable way. There is a wide range of factors influencing learning from genetic predispositions, intelligence, and motivation to attitude to learning and obtaining new information. Furthermore, there had been many researches carried out leading to described techniques of the study improvement. Therefore, I will try to explain and highlight those I found helpful and possibly applicable to the majority of university students. The content of this essay draws attention mostly to cognitive, behavioural and humanistic theories with focus on the academic performance improvement. There are many theories coming under cognitive psychology as cognitive psychologist concentrated on learning, memory and cognition in a very detailed way. According to Paivios dual coding theory, we have two interconnected coding systems- verbal and imaginative. Concrete words are therefore coded in both verbal and imaginative system whereas abstract words purely verbalised as there are no associated images in our mental system. This theory confirms assumptions that the left hemisphere is verbal oriented whereas right side of the brain is imaginative oriented. Taken into
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