After learning something, do you want to have a feeling that “You have really learned it?” or in other words “fully acknowledged it?”.Thereby, keeping the information as an all-time remembering component. Then the technique you need to unleash is to overlearn it and retain it for a wider time in your memory. In Fact, if you over-learn, then you will gain spontaneity and automatic sensations to capture it in your memory. In other words, you will gain the capability to accomplish something without thinking or brainstorming about it.
What is over-learning?
The phenomenon of even studying something seriously though you are sure that you know very well about it is termed overlearning. In this over-learning process, though a person knows almost everything about a topic, he does not stop but rather swims more and more into the entire sea of that particular topic.
A well-renowned psychological institution is APA.APA is the American Psychological Association. It has a definition of learning that suggests that” practice that is continued beyond the point at which the individual knows or performs the task as well as can be expected.”
Remembering or recalling is a task that needs effort to pursue. Over-learning aims at putting the information you have satisfactorily learned into your long-term memory as you are in a task of repeating it and enhancing spaces in your retaining memory.
Some Over learning research!!
In the 1890s, a researcher came out with a theory. His name was Hermann Ebbinghaus. He formulated a curve of time versus memory which is known as the Ebbinghaus Forgetting curve.From the curve ,examining the data points behavior he noticed that memory declines over time .He thus approached the concept that over learning happens when you have learnt an information and reached at 100% accuracy of recalling it but you are still in the manner of continuing it.He also observed that nonsense syllables are difficult to recall and easy syllables are easy to retain in memory with an accuracy of 100%.Syllables means words or information.The nonsense denotes difficult information.
Another contemporary research is the 1992 meta-analysis. This meta analysis included 15 studies. The studies were done both on physical and mental tasks. This study showed that over learning has a greater impact on mental tasks than physical tasks.
How to inherit the art of over learning?
Over-learning capability can be gained through repeating a task again and again. Suppose a study is assigned to a particular day to the student. If the student has completed the task, he should repeat and review it that day and for further days, he should put it in a revision. This will boost over learning and this over learning leads to automatic recall.This method falls under the Leitner method.
Making a schedule of doing tasks repeatedly in a particular week or a particular month can also increase the efficiency of over learning power.
Taking practice quizzes can also boost your power of over learning.
These are all about over learning. A mighty power that can boost the inner sight of you and make you more sharp, capable and brainstorming. So, studies and tasks need to be done on revision to boost the efficacy and capability of your daily task to a greater extent.
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Amir Uddin Ahmed
Intern, Content Writing Department,
YSSE