March 2nd, 2022
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New study suggests people are much more likely to remember a fact if their life is threatened while learning it
March 2nd, 2022
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GamerBhoy89
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one9eight5
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New-Teaching2964
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kae158
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LVLVMTG
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MissFall31
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HaxRus
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plantbasednaynay
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[deleted]
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Technoblade46363
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AFishheknownotthough
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WW_III_ANGRY
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naptiem
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aparkercoffee
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RosefaceK
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lockedoutofmymainrdt
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Pixi829
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Grayham123
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BeeferSutherland117
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nklights
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Flufflebuns
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HighlyUninterested
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AddictiveTV
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Dramatic_Remote_8818
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thekingdtom
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MountainHigh31
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TAU_equals_2PI
Article disappeared. Link is giving a 404.
Looks like they killed the article.
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WatchingUShlick
Or the person(s) running the study carried out their threat...
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TAU_equals_2PI
arzeth
Not found in Google Search. Not found in their search https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/archive?search=threatened+learning+§ion=1 . Also, judging by the way URLs are actually looking
/{language}/{studies,news,blog,articles}/{section}/{yearMonth}/{titleInEnglish}
or
/{language}/{basics,contributors}/{title,fullname}
, it seems that this "New study suggests people are much more likely to remember a fact if their life is threatened while learning it" has never been on this website.
Compare the above two URL templates to the URL provided by the OP:
/news/studies/0940329390342
Therefore, it seems this Reddit post is published by a karmafapper.
Also, why is it psychologytoday.org in the link, but when I go to this .org, it is redirected to .com.
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DweEbLez0
But if you don’t read it, then you will forget that you didn’t read it.
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jamaccity
It's not like your depends on it. Right?
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DweEbLez0
Well how do you know if your life depends on it if you didn’t read it and your life depended on reading it so you can remember your life depended on it?
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squirrels33
Sharks. It was definitely sharks.
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Worldly_Team_7441
So that's why there have been so many school shootings? /blatant sarcasm
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[deleted]
Lol. Flash cards and hand gun waiving.
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ywBBxNqW
Is anybody doing all right?
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cuchumino
Lol right? Evolution!!!
Fangs on cats hurt when they bite.... Beep Boop....Commit to memory
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Grouchy_Ad4351
Really..knife hurts...I learned that
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kynik01
😂
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jazzysunbear
LOL
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fllr
X+10=10. What is the value of X?!
hits person on head, loads gun
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF X?!?
…great study group…
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adric10
Psychology Today is less of an edited expert magazine as it is a forum for anyone to write basically anything. Not much different than Medium as far as I can tell.
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WhiteningMcClean
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A1Dilettante
"Take me out at 11:59pm if I fail my Algebra exam"
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CmdrRyser01
Gun to head : "WE CAN USE PASCALS TRIANGLE TO EXPAND BINOMIALS MORE QUICKLY!!!""
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EggShellWeasel
HS junior sobbing noises
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ShotNeighborhood6913
Why did the polynomial tree fall down?
because it had no real roots
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CmdrRyser01
God, damn you....I'm using this.
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mixeslifeupwithmovie
Don't forget the power of the unit circle!
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FeatheredFledgling
Alternatively just use the formula
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OrganizerMowgli
I'm gonna kill myself mitochondria powerhouse of the cell
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JacerEx
I came here to say the same thing.
Like, it's been a long time since I took intro to psych but I really remember the flashbulb memory study and how scary and traumatic events create really vivid memories.
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notbeleivable
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[deleted]
yea, sinking in the same way gets old, find new inventive ways to sink your sailboats
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InconvenientHummus
As the old saying goes: You never sink a sailboat the same way twice.
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ThatCharmsChick
Me too. All in the bath. Couldn't sail for shit when I was 3.
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ONOMATOPOElA
Being 3’ it must’ve been hard reaching some of the ropes
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Enraged-gypsie
You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of!
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Telemere125
Ah, but you have heard of him!
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notbeleivable
Experience is to be had , Lad!
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A_spiny_meercat
To be fair, I majored in ass piracy, this isn't my area
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tebabeba
"in the same manner" be doing a lot of work eh
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PM_ME_A_FUTURE
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itslike_reallygood
Korean or Russian school house?
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PM_ME_A_FUTURE
First class of Arabic dialects. Didn't even have text books and 4 out of 23 of us graduated...
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itslike_reallygood
Yikes.
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PM_ME_A_FUTURE
Haha, most of us would get together to rewatch Office Space after every single test. Dark times.
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[deleted]
Did an Arabic dialects class at my university and the professor showed up with a fresh hatred for her students each and every day haha. We had multiple people have public panic attacks in class.
You weren't taught by a lady from Tunisia, were you?
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PM_ME_A_FUTURE
Had teachers from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt
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bamboo_fanatic
He doesn’t need to keep it up, he remembers it all because his life was threatened while learning it.
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xitzengyigglz
Yeah the pressure at DLI was insane. Unfortunately I had friends both try and succeed with that.
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babokki
Graduated from DLI in Farsi and when i saw this post I thought the exact same thing. Glad I'm not the only one lol
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Warshok
LOL DLI.
During Vietnam, they used to keep a picture by the door of the classroom with a photo of a troopship with big block lettering over it:
YOU FAIL YOU SAIL
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Pythagoras_101
Idk about earnestly. It's just how we are told to handle everyone.
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TK7_Gaming
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DefiantBunny
I was just thinking something similar. We can take turns threatening to push each other in if you don't pass the exam.
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Potato-with-guns
You can just use an American school
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Phimosis_Joan
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Important-Taro8265
Don't suggest this, who knows what lows the schooling system will sink to to get more kids to pass tests...
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frostb1te22
“Only people with a C grade or higher will be allowed in a classroom during a shooting. If your grade is lower you will be tasked with disarming the shooter(s).” /s
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Cognitive_Spoon
While reviewing comma rules
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Varron
If you get a B or higher, please come to the front and get your complimentary bullet proof vests and helmets, now with Fortnite patterns!!
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fordfan919
All the A/B students flossing on there underperforming classmates.
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joesbagofdonuts
God knows the gene pool needs all the help it can get.
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cinderparty
Our district kinda just forgot standardized tests exists when they had to cancel them in 2020. I’m hoping, for the teachers sakes, that they never remember.
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nmesunimportnt
Don’t encourage the ammosexuals who want to arm schoolteachers: “Joshua! Who won the battle of Bull Run! Answer now or take a bullet to the face!”
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SeattleBattles
We need to go even further. Many schools can't even afford a school stabber, much less a school shooter.
The government needs to be providing them to all schools.
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MomJeans-
America had it right all along!
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AMC_Tendies42069
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ThatCharmsChick
I tried this on my (now ex) husband but my therapist told me these kind of things are frowned upon and likely illegal. Smh.
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AMC_Tendies42069
Did you call him a little bitch while waterboarding him? It’s important to drown him and then administer cpr and bring him back to life a couple of times to show him the fear of God. Fucking put the seat down motherfucker
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ThatCharmsChick
No, I threatened to. That was my mistake. Now he knows it was premeditated.
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[deleted]
Psht people are so sensitive these days!
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Fit_Cherry7133
Bleed you out slow, in the dark, real quiet, leave you here to rot CIA man.
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[deleted]
I don't got time to bleed.
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JaqnTheBox
“Ima cut you up so bad you gonna wish I no cut you up so bad!”
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BrutallyPretentious
Those are some bad roaches. I blame the schools.
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Quantum-taco
Beat me to it!
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Getfuckedbytomatoes
Why do people even pull the bowl up anyway
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Chooseslamenames
I’ll fucking kill you next time you sit down without checking what you’re sitting on…
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Mfed23
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rnybombs
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Zelanore
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_Stormchaser
teacher walks is with gun
“The Pythagorean Theorem is a^2 + b^2 +c^2”
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Crafty-Cauliflower-6
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_Stormchaser
teacher walks is with gun
“The Pythagorean Theorem is a^2 + b^2 = c^2”
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Pommepotatoman
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StevieWonderUberRide
I like this. It’s more about urgency than mortality.
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NotTheTrueKing
To be fair, mortality is a pretty urgent concern
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DairyKing91
Most of my career I've been put into positions with little or no training, and I do think the sink or swim stress helped me learn faster.
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SleepyBear3366911
Agreed. I now work now training tech support for a major auto company. Started out as an agent myself - whenever I had a call and didn’t know what to do and had to learn to assist the member, I swear that anxiety and stress of finding it and resolving the issue made it concrete in my mind where I didn’t forget it.
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DairyKing91
I know what you mean. It sucks and it's stressful and it has helped me to develop myself professionally immensely all at once.
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Strongest_Feet
I wonder if this also factors into learning differences between younger and older people. Teens can experience extreme duress over a test and treat it as a life-ending event, whereas an adult is less likely to feel that way.
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colfaxmingo
I forgot where I heard this, my life wasn’t being threatened at the time.
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concrete_kiss
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drjenavieve
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KennyFulgencio
Good point, if it was a person threatening you, you might start to doubt them; a countermeasure would be to make it rely on a mechanism rather than a person, which will kill you if you don't learn something. Like a Saw type trap which automatically shoots you unless you score perfectly on a quiz after half an hour (which you can divide into study time and quiz-taking time as you wish).
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BoardGameBologna
Hmmm...yeah, we're gonna need some people to actually kill to make those threats seem legitimate.
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novalunaa
Spicy memories acquired.
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_Steve_French_
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Born_Salamander_5751
Are you from my dad's other family?
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fffffffox
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Murderface__
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intellectualballer
i can’t see the article but wasn’t this already indirectly known? like arousal has already been shown to increase retention of important information and i would assume arousal is increased in life-threatening situations (not sure if it’s been shown tho)
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iriedashur
I know you mean "arousal" as in "awareness/alertness," but I can't help but think "if you want a PhD, you gotta be horny for danger"
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Anomalous-Entity
Education by Snu Snu!
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mrmiyagijr
The scientific term you are looking for is "Fear Boner".
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MRguitarguy
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bad-etude
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jungle_toad
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bamboo_fanatic
But not having this knowledge will get you killed!
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Sugarman4
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Dr-Chris-C
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Saleibriel
high-school biology teachers holding their classes at gunpoint
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
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FlourChild1026
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IZY2091
"Not Found 404.0"
Is it just me?
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MB_Derpington
No and still not available. There's a surprising / unsurprising amount of takes and comments about an article that has not been readable for several hours.
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finalremix
Getting that, too...
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HighExplosiveLight
Yeah, I can only find two instances of this online, both reddit threads, both broken links
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arzeth
Not found in Google Search. Not found in their search https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/archive?search=threatened+learning+§ion=1 . Also, judging by the way URLs are actually looking
/{language}/{studies,news,blog,articles}/{section}/{yearMonth}/{titleInEnglish}
or
/{language}/{basics,contributors}/{title,fullname}
, it seems that this "New study suggests people are much more likely to remember a fact if their life is threatened while learning it" has never been on this website.
Compare the above two URL templates to the URL provided by the OP:
/news/studies/0940329390342
Therefore, it seems this Reddit post is published by a karmafapper.
Also, why is it psychologytoday.org in the link, but when I go to this .org, it is redirected to .com.
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YadsewnDe
Don't let this info fall into the hands of my teachers
My parent been knew it seems lol
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claramb01
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intellectualballer
YES.
id just add a step after amygdala gets activated: arousal levels increase.
(increasing arousal has been shown to increase retention of important info) so anyway you can increase your arousal but still direct your attention should lead to increased retention
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GabrielXCrescendo
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AllEndsAreAnds
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shay-doe
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twofacetoo
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CoronaryAssistance
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Rebeccaissoawesome
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SanilllG
Say no more! Teaching at gun point approved!
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Stuffin_Muffins2
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FreddyFighter1
Teacher: pulls out gun and points at students Teacher: Y’ALL READY TO LEARN SOME FUCKING CALCULUS,YOU BETTER OR YOU’LL DIE
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loud_lark13
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ennuiacres
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[deleted]
Points Gun at Someone
“Fun Fact…”
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smp006
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eliza_frodo
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Faxicity
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geminicrickett1
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DarthDregan
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DennisTheBald
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Rezzone
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thekenmatax
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sagarp
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mykidsmademebald
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Klutzy-Midnight-9314
Remember this fact because your life depends on it. Now repeat it back
Me: ugghhh its right there on the tip of my tongue. dies while still searching my brain for said fact
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xtunamilk
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