跟讀練習: Why Studying LESS Makes You Learn Faster (Science-Based) - 通過影片學習英語口語
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The best way to study and learn is to access components of your memory systems that offset forgetting.
學習的最佳方式是呼叫記憶系統中能夠抵消遺忘的組成部分。
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That is the way to remember things.
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That is the way to gain mastery over them.
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And I'm going to teach you how to best do that using the data gleaned from the peer -reviewed literature.
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Now, before I do that, I want to talk about what learning is.
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Neuroplasticity is this incredible feature of your nervous system, which of course includes your brain and your spinal cord,
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which is the ability for your nervous system to change in response to experience.
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So any form of learning involves neuroplasticity.
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Neuroplasticity, we sometimes hear as neuroplasticity, two words, or neuroplasticity.
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Those are the same thing, essentially.
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The change that underlies neuroplasticity at the level of cells, which we call neurons or nerve cells, generally involves three different mechanisms.
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One is the strengthening of certain connections, what we call synaptic connections.
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Synapses are the location between neurons where they communicate with one another.
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It's actually a gap between the neurons.
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It is technically called the synaptic cleft.
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It's a gap.
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And within that gap, chemicals are passed across that gap that allow one neuron to activate other neurons, or many neurons to activate many other neurons,
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or to inhibit the activity of other neurons.
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So one form of neuroplasticity is the strengthening of connections between neurons.
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Another form of neuroplasticity is the weakening of connections between neurons.
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And yet a third form of plasticity, which is often discussed in the media, but is very rare actually in the nervous system,
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especially the adult nervous system of humans, is neurogenesis or the addition of new neurons.
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Let's just get this out of the way up front because the addition of new neurons, again, grabs so much attention in media articles,
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but it's responsible for a near trivial amount
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of the sort of neuroplasticity that is important for today's discussion or frankly for most all discussions.
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It is true you have a specialized set of neurons in your olfactory bulb that are responsible for smell, as well as a specialized set of neurons in the so -called dentate gyrus of your hippocampus,
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an area of the brain that's important for memory, in which new neurons appear to be added throughout the lifespan,
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but this is not the major mechanism by which learning and memory occurs in humans.
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Rather, the major mechanism by which learning
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and memory occurs in humans is the strengthening of existing connections and the weakening of existing connections,
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or the formation of new connections between already existing neurons, not new neurons.
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Okay?
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Now, the removal
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or weakening of connections between neurons being an important component of neuroplasticity is very important for sake of today's discussion.
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I want to emphasize that when we hear about weakening of connections, we often think, well, that means forgetting, or that means the brain is getting less good.
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However, so much of the neuroplasticity that underlies,
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for instance, the acquisition of a new motor skill is actually the reflection of removal of connections.
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So we don't want to project any kind of value onto a discussion about adding new connections, removing new connections.
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Let's just leave it at this level mechanistically.
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When you hear about neuroplasticity, just know that it could be the consequence of strengthening of connections as well as weakening of connections
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and that neither strengthening of connections in the nervous system nor weakening of connections can map directly to the formation
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or removal of say memories or information.
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Just know that these are the important mechanisms.
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In fact, if you look at a baby that is, let's say, I don't know, nine months old, their motor skills are not terrific typically compared to the motor skills
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that that child will have when they are six or seven years old.
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And believe it or not, the improvement in motor coordination that one observes in humans
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and other species for that matter from birth until the adolescence
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and teen years and adult years is largely the reflection of the removal.
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That's right.
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The removal of neural connections as opposed to the formation of neural connections.
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However, the neural connections that remain become much more robust.
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They become much more reliable.
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Okay.
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So that's the mechanistic backdrop for everything that we're going to talk about today, which is how to study and learn.
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And as I mentioned earlier in my introduction,
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most of learning and remembering new material is about offsetting the forgetting process that naturally occurs anytime we hear new information.
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So, in keeping with what will ultimately reveal itself to be the dominant theme of today's discussion, right now and for reasons that will become clear later,
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I want you to take a brief quiz.
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Now, the moment people hear quiz or test, typically it spikes their adrenaline, they start feeling stressed, but don't worry,
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you're gonna keep your answers to yourself and you're doing this for a very specific purpose.
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Here's...
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My question, this is a two question quiz.
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How many different ways, mechanistically speaking, does neuroplasticity occur?
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Is it one mechanism, two mechanisms, or three mechanisms?
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Or is it four or five?
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Okay.
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Can you name in your head two of the three major changes
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that the nervous system can undergo which are reflective of neuroplasticity?
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Okay, so the answer to question was, is that there are three different modes of neuroplasticity as you recall, or as you may not have been able to recall.
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And by the way, if you were not able to recall the three different modes of neuroplasticity or mechanisms underlying neuroplasticity, that is fine.
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As you'll soon realize, recognizing the errors in your information retention is another critical and very useful way to retain more information,
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even if you got the answer wrong or you didn't know.
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In fact, especially if you got the answer wrong or you didn't know.
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So the three ways are the strengthening of neural connections, second, the weakening of neural connections, and third, through neurogenesis, the addition of new neurons.
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Why did I provide this quiz?
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Why did I test you?
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Well, as you'll soon learn, if you look across the total body of research on how best to study and learn, it involves doing exactly what we just did,
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which is to periodically stop and test yourself on the material that you learned.
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Testing is not just a way of evaluating what knowledge you've acquired and which knowledge you have not managed to acquire.
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It also turns out to be the best tool for offsetting forgetting of any kind.
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This study looked at whether or not studying material four times, so study, study, study, study,
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was better in terms of locking that information into people's minds, allowing them to use that information flexibly, which is an element of creativity,
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essentially giving the mastery of the material.
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Then a different group which studied once, studied the material twice, studied the material three times, then was tested on the material.
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Or a third group that studied material once, then took one, two, yes, three tests on the material.
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Now, so what I just described was three groups, all of whom read a passage.
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This was a passage about animals, about biology, some other topics too in different experiments.
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Again, three groups.
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One group studies four times, then later they take a test.
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The second group studies one, two, three times, takes a test on that material, and then later takes a test.
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The third group studies the material once, then takes three tests on the material and then later takes a test.
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So what's analyzed and compared between these different groups is their performance on that final test.
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That should be pretty much obvious given the way we've been
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going today in this description of tests as a way to offset forgetting.
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Okay.
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So the more tests that you take as a way to expose yourself to the material, the better you're going to perform on that material at some later point.
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Now, of course, at some point you have to be exposed to the material for the first time, right?
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That's why it's studying and learning.
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But after one exposure to new material, taking more tests on that material, even if you don't perform that well on those tests,
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as long as you're able to see the accurate answers to those tests
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and compare your answers to those answers will lead to better performance on the ultimate test
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and retention of that material at some later time.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 102 個句子、1433 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 8:44。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 164 個詞，接近日常對話。 82% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個不太常見的單詞，附發音和釋義：
- mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/ (名詞) — 機械 /機械, 機構 /機構. Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
- strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/ (動詞) — 加強 /加強. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- occur /əˈkɜː/ (動詞) — 發生 /發生. To happen or take place.
- offset /ˈɔf.sɛt/ (名詞) — 補償, 抵銷. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- quiz /kwɪz/ (名詞) — 測驗 /測驗, 競猜 /競猜. A competition in the answering of questions.
- compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (動詞) — 比, 比較 /比較. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
- skill /skɪl/ (名詞) — 技巧, 技能. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
- recall /ɹɪˈkɔl/ (動詞) — 罷免 /罷免, 召回. To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ (副詞) — 本質上 /本質上, 基本上. In essence: by nature.
- component /kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/ (名詞) — 元件, 部件. A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
- passage /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ (名詞) — 片斷 /片斷, 片段. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/ (名詞) — 反射, 反映. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
- acquire /əˈkwaɪɚ/ (動詞) — 獲得 /獲得, 取得. To get.
- expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/ (動詞) — 揭露, 暴露. To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
- retention /ɹɪˈtɛnʃən/ (名詞) — 留用. The act of retaining or something retained.
影片中出現的短語動詞
- look at (動詞) — 觀察 /觀察, 看. To observe or watch.
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 17 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, you're, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, retention /ɹɪˈtɛnʃən/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 mechanism, strengthen, occur 這類單詞。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | are passed · is often discussed · be added |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | plasticity, which is · today, which is · undergo which are |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | you've acquired · we've been |
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