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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!opl.com!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pop.stat.purdue.edu!hrubin
  2. From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.edu
  4. Subject: Re: memory
  5. Message-ID: <C1JBBw.6CL@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 22:47:55 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan27.160255.10176@midway.uchicago.edu>
  8. Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
  9. Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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  12. In article <1993Jan27.160255.10176@midway.uchicago.edu> awl1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
  13. >as a student, I am interested to know what is the best way to keep what I learn from science textbooks in my memory ( not a cramming-for-tests memory, but long term memory)
  14.  
  15. I doubt that anyone really knows; I have found that in at least one case
  16. (German) I retained the material much better than I thought I would, even
  17. with years of total disuse.
  18.  
  19. I might suggest that any facts be related to structure and concepts.  Are
  20. concepts, once learned, ever forgotten?  It is extremely difficult to test
  21. this.
  22. -- 
  23. Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
  24. Phone: (317)494-6054
  25. hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
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  27.