Problems of studying in children and adolescents based on the hotline experience

MENA Dubai 2003 Abstract

Author Hada Abdul Aziz
Copy The psychologists indicate that forgetting before the exam is a psychological situation resulting from fear, panic and insecurity; which leads to a distraction of the mind and a lack of concentration of all information the student has memorized for the test. To avoid this situation, we should consider studying as an auditive reading that adds to our information and to our intellectual and general culture, what is going on around us. Besides it is very important to have a good sleep before the exam, in order to relax and to give the brain a chance to review all the information. Staying up late and using all kinds of alarm clocks increase the student's anxiety and mental and psychological disturbances. Whereas good sleep provides the brain with energy for memorization and recollection. Thus, information stocking in the brain's centers in a chemical procedure that occurs during sleep.

There are many facts that should be known in studying problems. Forgetting is a symptom of many psychological and organic problems. Amnesia varies with age. With elderly amnesia results from veins clotting where there is a decrease of nervous cells in the brain, amnesia occurs for recent events whereas old events are still remembered.

There is also the businessmen's amnesia. In this case, excessive work leads to the confusion of the events with each other resulting in amnesia and a difficulty in concentrating. Then we reach the Juvenile amnesia that occurs around the date of the exam and that is related to many reasons such as stress, anxiety, fear, depression, etc.

The study presents learning problems faced by students such as text anxiety, difficulty in studying, lack of motivation for studying, adaptation to school and college, decrease in the academic performance.

The highest percentage of test anxiety was in high school students (81.9). The percentage of test anxiety in elementary classes reached 61.8. This percentage is lower in college students (28.6). The percentages of studying difficulties reached 21.4 in college students, 17.6 in elementary classes and 11.1 in high school students. The percentages of lack of motivation for studying reached 23.2 in college students, 8.8 in elementary classes and 5.6 in high school students.

The study aims to answer these questions:

  1. What are the main reasons of amnesia?
  2. What are the best ways for studying?
  3. How can the student fix the information and recollect it during the exam?