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Five Best Note Taking Applications. My Perspective: Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development. This theory is one of my favorites. Hehehe... I don't know but I find this a bit bizarre yet it explains a lot about human personality. According to Freud, the libido, or the sex drive, energy, desire, whatever you may call it, causes us to seek pleasure in different parts of our body during the different stages of our development. Every stage can be characterized by being sensitive in an erogenous zone, or the part of the body the gives pleasure. There are five stages of psychosexual development: Stage I: Oral Stage In this stage, the pleasure giving part is the mouth.

Stage II: Anal Stage Erogenous zone is elimination of body wastes, both defecation and bladder elimination. Images retrieved via google search...for those authors of specific websites where I got these images, please contact me if you want your photos to be removed...thanks...God Bless!!! Acrostic Poem, Backronym and Mnemonic Creation at JogLab. Fast, Free, Fun. Tools for Teaching - Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course. THEORIES AND PROCESSESUnderlying memory improvement are a few basic concepts. Although we will not go into extensive detail about theories of memory, we will present some of the basic ideas to help you understand why certain techniques work.

Underlying memory improvement are a few basic concepts. Although we will not go into extensive detail about theories of memory, we will present some of the basic ideas to help you understand why certain techniques work. The first process of memory is attention. There is much more information in your environment than you can process at any one time. Thus, you must make choices (conscious and unconscious) regarding the stimuli to which you will attend. Once something is attended to, it must be encoded to be remembered. How does encoding apply to memory? You may be able to remember information best if you use techniques (while retrieving the information) that are related to the way you encoded it. Storage is the process of holding information in your memory. The transfer of information from short- to long-term memory can be achieved in many ways. Retrieval is the process of actually remembering something when you want to.

Attention ----> Encoding ----> Storage ----> Retrieval. Psychology Mnemonics. Psychology Mnemonics Thinking About Becoming A Psychology Student? Find A Psychology School Near You Psychology Mnemonics (Photo Credit: Robin van Mourik) Welcome to the psychology mnemonics page here on the All About Psychology website. How Do Mnemonic Devices Work? The most common mnemonic device draws upon the first letter of each word within an appropriately arranged sentence. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain Mnemonic Device Examples Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete-operational, Formal-operational Smart People Cook Fish Freud's Psychosexual Stages Of Development Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital Orange Aardvarks Punish Lazy Goats Create Your Own Mnemonic Devices Thanks to the NASA Cognition Lab you can easily generate your own mnemonic devices for free.

Click Here to make your own personalized mnemonic devices. Classic Articles All Psychology Students Should Read Back To Top Of The Page. Random Mnemonic Maker. Type a word or phrase into the box and this quick page will create a sentence to help you remember it. If you type in letters, you'll get an acrostic sort of thing. SPACEFEM Strange Purple Adamant Crayons Entice Fun Eloquent Missiles You can enter a series of three or more words you'd like to remember, and get a complete sentence where the first letters match: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Magenta Volatile Eccentric Microphones Juggle Swirly Ubiquitous Nudists You can separate words by spaces Milk Ice Cream Apple Pie Metallic Igloos Canoodle Allergic Pies Or group them with commas Milk, Ice Cream, Apple Pie Medications improve arts The sentence can have up to 20 words.

The script occasionally saves the phrases being typed in. Post your Mnemonics here. Taking Notes from Research Reading. Printable PDF Version Fair-Use Policy If you take notes efficiently, you can read with more understanding and also save time and frustration when you come to write your paper. These are three main principles 1.

Know what kind of ideas you need to record Focus your approach to the topic before you start detailed research. Then you will read with a purpose in mind, and you will be able to sort out relevant ideas. First, review the commonly known facts about your topic, and also become aware of the range of thinking and opinions on it. 2. Your essay must be an expression of your own thinking, not a patchwork of borrowed ideas. Copy out exact words only when the ideas are memorably phrased or surprisingly expressed—when you might use them as actual quotations in your essay. 3.

Whether you use cards or pages for note-taking, take notes in a way that allows for later use. Study Guides and Strategies. HOW TO STUDY. William J. Rapaport Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Philosophy, and Center for Cognitive ScienceState University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY14260-2000 If you are reading a printed version of this, you might be interested in the Web version, at which has numerous links to other helpful Web sites (indicated in some printed versions by underlined phrases).

Belorussian version Versione Italiana OUTLINE and INDEX: 1. It has been claimed that everyone has a different "learning style". But everyone surely has a different "studying style". More importantly, the way that you are studying right now might not be the best for you: How would you know? One important clarification before we begin: "Studying" is not the same thing as "doing homework"! Studying may include doing homework, but it is also a lot more, as you will see.

I am going to give you some suggestions on how to study efficiently. 2. ©Batom Inc. 3. 3.1.