Saturday, March 12, 2016
Observations During Psychology Test
For Thursday's psychology test, I started studying on Monday, but as Kyle said in a previous post I found that a lot of this studying was relearning concepts or teaching them to myself for the first time. Long story short, I didn't get a lot of cognitive reinforcing to help me remember concepts in the process. But I ended up doing a lot better than I expected on the test, but that is beside the point. During the test, I went all the way through it the first time making sure that, even if I was unsure, I put an answer regardless. The second time, I went through checking my answers ruling out the ones that I knew I had the correct answer. But something curious happened: on some of the questions that I couldn't be more sure about the first time around, I suddenly started to doubt myself. The same thing happened the third time around, but with several other answers. I believe this even caused me to change some of my answers from the correct answer to a wrong answer. In class, we had talked about test taking anxiety and how it affects long term memory (or short term too I believe) regarding facts and concepts stored in the brain. I think this could have been in play, but there might have been other factors as well. Is this just me being overly critical, a case of cramming for a test gone wrong, or test taking anxiety taking the answers from me? Thoughts?
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I think it's very possible that it was a combination of all of those things: test taking anxiety as well as being overly critical that caused you to act this way because the brain is very complicated and always has so much going on. This might have caused you to become confused about what you were doing.
ReplyDeleteI think this may have also been just over thinking, almost reasoning too much. There's that saying for tests to always go with your gut or first answer. This may have been something where you think the answer came too easily, and then you over reason which leads you to the wrong answer.
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ReplyDeleteI think your experience is interesting, mine is kind of the opposite. For me, I usually get the ones I got right the first time, right for the rest of the time. But, it is the ones that I originally got wrong, that I get confused about the right answer. I think it is because sometimes I confuse the feeling of getting something right and getting something wrong, although that seems weird. I have feelings toward the wrong answer, the one I tried to tell myself was wrong, but I also have feelings toward the one that is right, that I tried to tell myself was right. This may seem odd, but I really have no idea how else to explain it.
ReplyDeleteI think your experience is interesting, mine is kind of the opposite. For me, I usually get the ones I got right the first time, right for the rest of the time. But, it is the ones that I originally got wrong, that I get confused about the right answer. I think it is because sometimes I confuse the feeling of getting something right and getting something wrong, although that seems weird. I have feelings toward the wrong answer, the one I tried to tell myself was wrong, but I also have feelings toward the one that is right, that I tried to tell myself was right. This may seem odd, but I really have no idea how else to explain it.
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