If you don't try to brainstorm, you won't remember long

You already have a vocabulary list to learn for your French class. The best way to study?

You love to look at every word and recite it, but sometimes you don't have the time and energy to sit in one place and read it over and over, but the truth is that you want this number of words to be remembered in your mind. me Is there any other way to easily memorize it?

There may be a better way to remember: You need to find a method of learning that has a brain-stimulating nature, for example, turning learning into a game, playing and learning, learning vocabulary will turn into a crossword puzzle game, both good and balanced.

In a recent test conducted at Kent State University in Ohio, USA.Researchers found that students who had been playing crossword guessing scores scored better on vocabulary tests than students who only memorized.

That's normal, the teacher told the students: Self-examination is a good learning strategy. But according to Mary Pyc and Katherine Rawson, two psychologists working at Kent State University in Ohio, USA, want to know why word puzzles are more effective than memorizing.

In their experiments, 118 University students will memorize a list of 48 words, Swahili. They received English translations of words. (Swahili, or Kiswahili, is a language spoken in many parts of Africa.) Students are divided into two groups. In a group, students learn by reading and rereading English words and translations. In the other group, the students were shown 48 words and then played the crossword guessing game about the English meaning of the words.

The students in the experiment told Pyc and Rawson about " intermediate keywords ." Their intermediary keyword is a word or phrase that helps students remember the lesson. For example, wingu from Swahili means " cloud." Many students in this study said they found wingu contained the word " wing ", which could remind English speakers of a bird's image in the clouds. In this case, the word " wing " is an intermediate keyword.

A week later, all 118 students were tested on 48 Swahili words, and as a result students studied with higher score crossword puzzles. The previous crossword puzzle may have helped students use intermediate keywords to score on the final test.

Pyc and Rawson then check the memory level of intermediate students. Students who have played crossword puzzles may remember these keywords more often, when compared to read-only students.

Pyc said that students often think they have learned something, just because they have been staring at it for a long time. " Illusion is, you read something and think you will remember it. But if you don't try to brainstorm, you won't remember long ," Pyc told Science News magazine. She is currently a researcher at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA, but at the time of her studies she was a graduate student at Kent State University.

Students often learn by reading text and highlighting or emphasizing key ideas. Then, to prepare for the test, they look at their own sign. That approach may not be effective for students, according to Henry Roediger, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, who is not involved in new studies.

" They think they know that because they have read it too many times, but they have not practiced the skills they will need for the test, the pre-crossword puzzle ," said Henry Roediger, speaking in Science. News.