It was stated in our book that if you are exposed to something many times, we are more likely to remember that thing. This being said, the thing I will remember most about psychology from this class are those damn five principles of scientific thinking. I mean, lets be honest here, I had to encounter those being drilled into my head at bare minimum, 3 times a week. Not only did I come across these multiple times a week, but their magnitude of importance in Psych 1001 made me create tricks to remember each of them. It was stated in our book that by creating tricks and mnemonic devices we remember things much better. It is no surprise then that I will probably remember these terms more than anything else. Another learning technique described in our book was the fact that learning over a long period of time, as opposed to cramming, tends to lead to more remembrance long term. Considering that I learned and continued to use these over the course of a whole semester, I will most likely remember them for some time down the road. The combination of these three learning techniques, along with others, is plenty of evidence that I will be stuck with the burdensome task of always asking myself, "Correlation vs. Causation?" Thank you Psych 1001 for ensuring that I never forget to check my 5 principles. My life is now complete.
How can you not?
I also agree. Those five principles were repeated throughout the reading of each chapter in the text book, which made it really hard to forget. Since we learned it so long ago and then it was continually repeated throughout the semester, I will definitely remember those five principles for a long time.
Agreed. Every time I read a study now, I always catch myself asking if there's a simpler explanation than the one that the researchers concluded, and whether or not the results were just a correlation or actual causation. Well done, Psych 1001. Well done.
Yes the five principles were excessively drilled into our heads. They can be applied to real life sometimes which is kind of neat. Now I am so much smarter because I know the five principles.
I don't know about the rest of you, but the fact that each chapter quiz had about 2 questions on these principles was the biggest factor in helping me remember them. I, too, think about these in everyday life, but not the strict terms and definitions, I just do it naturally now.
I have literally never taken any steps to remember the five principles, but I have heard them mentioned so ridiculously many times that I will remember them for a very, very long time. This proves that simple repetition of information can cement the said information in the mind.
I don't ever remember using these in my life, but I do remember hearing about them. They are annoyingly smushed into my head, because they have been repeated a million and one times.
I agree with this post. I heard these over and over again. I feel like I will definitely remember these for a long time because they were constantly repeated and put in front of us. I think it was good and important to learn these.
Totally agree. I'm constantly analyzing stuff according to these principles now. Maybe there's a reason they put them in the book like that? I was just thinking the same thing today. They must have really wanted us to get those principles down for life or something.
As annoying as it was that those principle questions were on every single quiz, I have to admit that I will never forget those principles. When I got to the final and was asked a question about the principles, I was so thankful that those principles had been drilled into our brains. If I have memorized/learned one thing from Psych, it's those principles.
I agree with this post. The thinking principles were very annoying to have to learn about over and over again. However, when I took the final, I was asked three different questions about them and I was glad that I had had a lot of practice in identifying them.
I definitely agree with this! Every time I read the book I end up asking myself those taunting questions over to myself "could this study be replicated? is there a simpler answer to fit this situation?" etc. but yes, definitely will not be able to forget them.. not sure if that is a good or bad thing! ;)
I actually enjoyed these 5 principles of scientific thinking and thought they were quite intriguing. I also liked how on every chapter quiz a question or two was presented that was based solely on these principles. My favorite principle, or the one that I could easily get the correct answer for, was Ocaam's Razor. Those questions were simply, too simple.
This is so true, haha! These principles will remain intact in my brain for as long as I live ;) Seeing these principles over and over, and over again definitely helped me understand them, so that is the plus side. However, I found myself getting annoyed because they were EVERYWHERE! Haha, not something to complain about, though. I have a hard time believing that I'll be able to avoid these pointers...
I completely agree with that! It was all over everything, and to be honest, drove me nuts. Especially when on the chapter quizzes I couldn't figure out that first question. Plus I'm a bio major, so those were already very very stressed in the other classes I'm taking
There are actually 6 principles of scientific thinking! but they will stay with me for a while too.
I couldn't agree more not only did we see them since the start of the class we used them a lot. I also believe that these principals are something that we can apply to other everyday situations as well