AUIDS 276 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Academic Journal, Environmental Psychology
29 May 2018
School
Course
Professor
Natasha Mutize
Journal Submission #2
Enviro-Psych 344
October 6,2016
The topic I will tackling in my journal submissions is on how study spaces can influence
the behaviour of a person, specifically, their information retaining abilities, study patterns and
their social behaviour. The social norms suggest that one can succeed academically if their
frequent the library setting. In my journals I am going to research and see if other articles and
publications support or refute this claim.
The argument raised in the article Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits by
the reporter by Benedict Carey of the New York Times is that the more abstract and busy an
environment is, the better it is for studying. Cognitive scientists have found out that instead of
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abilities can be improved. The brain is able to make subtle associations what it is studying and
its background environment. By forcing the brain to make multiple association with different
elements of the environment, the information will have more of the neural scaffold. The
environment that we study in definitely influence the ways in which we absorb information.
According to the article, the brain is an organ that is functioning 24/7 and the more challenges
and exercise it gets, the better it will get when it comes to cognitive functions as information
retention. There is a clear connection betee eiroetal psholog theor ad Care’s
media article, credible sources, researchers and psychology journals, are used as reference to
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