When you have to learn a lot of flash cards, it becomes too much of a problem and can last from morning to night. That’s why, when I watched one of Dr Justin Sung’s videos (the most famous one), if you don’t know another approach instead of having to memorize and repeat, I became allergic to repetition.
I think that the repetition of reasons is done in an unconscious way as when you played a pokémon game you did not expect at all to see such or such pokémon and without realizing it you made an active recall.
Has anyone done flashbulb memory and does it really work with mnemonics?
Hmm, I am not quite sure if I understand your concern right, but certainly repetition is a tedious part, but it is somewhat unavoidable as you can see at the highest level of memory competitions.
But in terms of gamification and novelty, there are tons of tricks and adjustments that could make the process far more enjoyable. Most games feature very heavy repetitive elements, but with clear progression and fun reward effects, and not to mention and well-designed randomization.
The bad news is all learning is repetition. The good news is most repetition is not rote.
Spending an entire day with flash cards should be against the Geneva convention. Break it down into half hour bouts so they are more effective, then limit yourself to 8 bouts a day at most. Retention will go up dramatically and you can stay sane.
Flash cards are just a form of rote that sucks less. Once information is starting to stick in your head, you need to find ways to use it, practice with it, play with it, and make it relevant to you. Otherwise it’ll never be more than disjointed facts.
Besides repetition, I’ve found that teaching the material to someone else or applying the information in a practical context can significantly enhance retention.
I’d very much echo this, I think one of the fun elements of this forum is in fact that we get to speak, discuss, and teach others our own idiosyncratic lessons.
I would have preferred to use flash bulb memory, but I don’t see how it could be possible to create sensations that are so shocking or traumatic on demand.
I was so tired of learning with flash cards that I thought I might as well learn vocabulary by reading a book or playing a game that has a lot of direct text, at least the story will push me to continue with the flash cards. You feel like a robot, and that bothers me.
It might be worth considering that the problem was not intrinsic to flashcards, but rather your mindset in regards to them.
Certainly in my case I have had periods where flashcards were drudgery, but I’ve also had periods where I thought they were incredibly fun because I got so much value from them.
At that time my flashcards included images, audio, and all kinds of fun things I added.