The Last Day

Assalamualaikum,

the last day till our submission for project 1 and project 2

may Allah make it easy for all of us....
ameen...

Concepts of Classical Conditioning

i was going through my computer and i remembered my previous assignment regarding classical conditioning.

Concepts of Classical Conditioning

1.       Generalization

·         Ali was summoned by a traffic police on the day he drove over the limit, so he had to slow down. After a while, when he sees any police in uniforms, he would slow down driving by the police.

·         Step 1 :                                 NS                                                          NR

         (policeman)                                       (no response)

·         Step 2 :                                 UCS                        +             NS                                          UCR

       (being summoned)                  (policeman)                        (slow down)

·         Step 3 :                 CS                                                                           CR

        (all police)                                                          (slow down)

                     (Generalization)

2.       Extinction

·         Sarah has a cat, named tompok. Everytime she calls her cat ‘meow-meow’, the cat did not come to Sarah. Then she starts calling meow-meow and present the cat ‘friskeys’ (cat food), the cat come for the food. Sarah did that for several times, pairing meow-meow with friskeys. Later, she call meow-meow without presenting the food, the cat still come forward. She repeated this, calling meow-meow without food a lot of times. After a long time, her cat does not come, when she calls out meow-meow without friskeys . Extinction occurs.

·         Step 1 :                                 NS                                                          NR

         (meow-meow)                                (no response)

·         Step 2 :                                 UCS                        +             NS                                          UCR

       (friskeys)                              (meow-meow)                         (cat come)

·         Step 3 :                 CS                                                                           CR

        (meow-meow)                                               (cat come)

·         Step 4 : (after a long time)           CS                                                                           NR

        (meow-meow)                                               (no reponse)

                                                                                                                       EXTINCTION

3.       Spontaneous Recovery

·         Ahmad was a hafiz, he memorize the whole Quran by heart, since he studied in a Tahfiz School. He used to read the Quran and listen to another Qari recite the Quran, so he can memorize it better. After he completed his studies, he’s occupied with his work, therefore did not have time to re-memorize the Quran. As he was listening to the radio one day he listened to the Qari reciting the Quran, he was surprise with himself that he could still remember the ayat as clear as the first day he memorized it.

·         Step 1 :                                 UCS                        +             CS                                           UCR

       (read the Quran)              (listen to Qari)            (memorize the Quran)

·         Step 2 :                 CS                                                                           CR

        (listen to Qari)                                                 (memorize the Quran)

·         Step 3 : (after a long time)                           CS                                                           CR

                                                  (listen to Qari)                                       (still memorize)

                                                                                                                         Spontaneous Recovery

4.       High-Order Conditioning

·         Siti adores a man who wears blue tie. One day she saw Asyraf wearing a blue tie, her heart starts pumping very fast. After that she keeps on seeing Asyraf wearing a blue tie. Ever since that, she start to have feeling s for Asyraf, the next time she met Asyraf, he wasn’t wearing the blue tie, but she still have a crush on him. When Asyraf gave her a box of chocolate, she feels excited and her heart pumps very fast

·         Step 1 :                                 NS i                                                        NR

         (Asyraf)                                            (no response)

·         Step 2 :                                 UCS                        +             NS i                                        UCR

          (blue tie)                           (Asyraf)                                (heart pumping fast)

·         Step 3 :                 CS i                                                                         CR

          (Asyraf)                                                    (heart pumping fast)

·         Step 4 :                                 CS i         +             NS ii                                                       CR

                        (Asyraf)                   (Chocolate)                             (heart pumping fast)

·         Step 5 :                 CS ii                                                        CR

         (chocolate)                                      (heart pumping fast)

1 week left

Assalamualaikum,

one week left till exams starts... but all the assignments are starting to pile up... the due dates, last minute tests....

our group will concentrate on our report for now and our video..

memorizing the two surahs is still on so have to balance in between all this hectic life...

may Allah make it easy for us all
wassalam.......

monitoring group memorizing

Assalamualaikum,

i just realised that we had to monitor our groups progress in memorizing...
we were so busy with the 2nd project that we almost forgot about others' memorization.

after fajr

Assalamualaikum,

may my previous post help better in memorizing.. if you find it hard to wake up early in the middle of the night, then maybe should try after fajr prayer. like i did today when i couldn't wake up at 4.30 even though i've set my alarm clock. due to tiresome this whole week all the due dates and last midterms and tests plus i'm having this weird cold that blocks my nose to make it worst for my concentration.
anyway, when i wake up for fajr, i still have time to memorize 2 pages of al-Baqarah for my 8 o'clock class. =) Alhamdulillah it went smooth.

Busy bUsy buSy busY

Assalamualaikum,

busy with assignments due this week, presentation, and hafazan (memorization)  and so on.

i just realised that the best time to start memorising is before fajr, around 4.30 am. when there were no lights and no other noise. it was peaceful. that is the perfect time to memorize. our brain functions well when we are calm ...
try it.. at the same time we could wake up for tahajjud as well....

group discussion

Assalamualaikum,

my group are having our discussion upon completion our report for our little research....@ library IIUM

Intermittent Schedule

Assalamualaikum,

last time i had promised to tell about the Intermittent Schedule. it is divided into two ; Ratio and Interval.

Ratio Schedule : when the reinforcer is given after a certain amount of response. it is divided into two ; Fixed Ratio and Variable Ratio

Fixed Ratio is when the amount of response is consistant with the reinforcer. for example every 4 pages you read a day, you will be rewarded with 10 marks, or every 10 pages you read you'll recieve a token or a gift.

Variable Ratio is when the amount of response is not fixed upon recieving the reinforcer. for example, today Safiyya finish up 3 ayat's for memorizing, tomorrow she'll memorize 5 pages only then she'll be rewarded, the day after tomorrow she did 7 pages but did not get any reward as yet on the 4th day she'll memorize 8 pgs then she'll be rewarded.

 As for Interval Schedule, it is also divided into two ; Fixed interval and Variable Interval.
Fixed interval is the reinforcer is to response after each x minute. the reinforcer depends on the time that response took. for example, if you read the quran for every 30 minutes a day then you'll get a rest.

Variable Interval  is when the time of responses are not fixed with the time, for example if Ali read the Quran ofr 10 mins then 15 mins then 8 mins then 6 mins, only then shall he be rewarded, let say with a game.

for further info, if you wish to see the results of these schedule :
http://www.behavioralinstitute.org/FreeDownloads/Behavior_Reinforcement/4IntermittentReinforceSchedules_06.pdf

wassalam

we have no class today

although we have no class today but i still have to write my reflection. though you might wonder since we keep on cancelling class, why i haven't been writing anything so far. it's because i was busy with other subjects. insyaAllah i will try to be more regular here....

Reinforcement Schedule

Assalamualaikum,

i'll continue on the reinforcement subject matter. Reinforcemnet schedule is divided into two; continous reinforcement and intermittent reinforcement.

today i'll discuss about the Continous Reinforcement.

it means that every response is reinforced or rewarded. in other words, every actions that were percieved as good will be rewarded. therefore if we would apply it in our memorizing schedule, every page that we memorize each day should be rewarded either by someone else or by oneself. by letting you play game for half an hour after you had finish memorizing a page.

i remember when my nephew and niece stayed over at my parents for the school holidays, i taught them qiraah, the iqra. they are about 6 & 7 years old, still learning how to read the arabic alphabets. they were quite reluctant and lazy to learn and read. so i gave them sweets everytime after we finish reading 1 page a day. it continues everyday like this, he even added 2 more pages as we go on. but later on my sister took over teaching them the iqra and she didn't reward them with anything, so they say that : cik anna used to give us sweets sp where's our sweets?
but my sister never did give them anything. so later on their will to read faded instantly.

hope this will help you understand more....

instrumental conditioning

Assalamualaikum,

I was thinking of another better way to learn memorizing the quran....
last time we learned about this great theory, introduced by B.F. skinner and thorndike. it is called insrtumental conditioning, also known as operant conditioning.
this theory introduce the rewards and punishments method.
today i'll explain directly to positive reinforcement, which involves the presentation of a stimulus after the response.
one of it is an ACTIVITY REINFORCER , to memorize the Quran faster, we should make it as an activity reinforcer, where, maybe get into groups to memorize together and ask a friend to check and re-check our memorization. then reward ourselves with a good reward after this sort of activity. for example, after completing the memorizing certain verses of Quran we may reward ourselves with some special treatment... let say, going shopping, relaxing with spa's. though this seems to be a bit in the high end dictionary, let's take more simple example like maybe play around the park, treat with delicious delicacies.

complete maze

Assalamualaikum,

finally our group had  finish constructing a second maze for our pet hamster. alhamdulliah.
our first maze was made for baby turtles, who turned out to be very slow for us to train them in this short time of period, therefore we decided to change our experiment to hamsters, which we thought would be easier to handle. unfortunately me and my group members find it a bit hard to hold the hamsters. we would scream and startle and laugh about it. we will still use the hamsters since it is easy to be taught.

wassalam.....

other concepts of classical conditioning

Assalamualaikum,
i have posted earlier on applying classical conditioning in memorizing the quran. there are some concepts we should be aware of.... especially in memorizing the quran.

EXTINCTION

This phenomena occurs when the conditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the unconditioned stimulus after a while it will lead to weaker and weaker conditioned stimulus... as for example if we didn't revise the Quran over and over again, perhaps at the same particular place, soon or later it will fade away. you might tend to forget certain kalimah (word) then you'll forget an ayat (verse).

but don't worry there's another phenomena called spontaneous recovery.

SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY


it is a recurrence of a conditioned response when a period of extinction is followed by a rest period. it means that even after a while we haven't been revising the memorization, but after sometime when we continue to memorize again, it is easier to retrieve the memory/remember the verses. masyaAllah what a great ability!
we could remember eventhough we haven't been memorizing after a while.

TIME CONSTRAIN

Assalamualaikum,

have u tried my suggestion on classical conditioning method??

i on the other hand find it hard right now since there's alot on my plate.
and i'm sure all of us here in iium right now are quite busy with midterms, assignments, and programms etc....
but we still have to manage our time. if you can't find time to memorize, at least find sometime to read the quran over and over, repeatedly, to make your memorization easier.
insyaAllah it will be easy....

Applying Classical Conditioning in Memorizing the Quran

Assalamualaikum,

i have some ideas on how to improve our memorizing skills according to behaviorism.


let say, if i start to memorize the quran at one specific corner of the masjid everyday. and each day i would only sit at the same corner for my memorizing session, repeating the same ayat... and so on.

thus ;

UCS                 +                 NS                        = UCR
repeated verse  + place (a corner in a masjid) = memorize

       UCS         +                    NS                     = CR
repeated verse + place (a corner in a masjid) = memorize

              CS                          = CR
place (a corner in a masjid) = memorize

So, i would associate the corner with memorizing, automatically i would remember the verse as soon as i see the corner...

so what do u think? do you think this will work?
lets give it a try! it does not to be the corner of a masjid, it could be anywhere you are comfortable with.....

3rd day of أيام التشريق

salam,

today is the 3rd day of ayyam tasyriq. today would be the last day for takbir....

anyway...we are still on a holiday mood, so insyaallah i'll try to start memorizing in this week.

13 steps to memorize the Qur’an by Yasir Qadhi

salam, to all i have found this incredible tips and steps from the web.... i hope this could do of any help. insyaAllah...

During one of his seminar about the Sciences of the Qur’an, sh. Yasir Qadhi shared with us some practical steps that helped him memorize the Qur’an during his teenage years.

Realize it’s a spiritual AND physical project. It’s a miracle and blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala that you’re able to absorb the Qur’an. If you want to take advantage of this blessing, you should be in a position to receive it and therefore strive physically to achieve it and strive spiritually to get the maximum benefit.

1. Sincerity. The first matter you have to pay attention to is your intention (if you intend good you will get good). Make sure that the intention you are making is only for the sake of Allah SWT, to seek His Pleasure so that inshAllah, with His Mercy, we will be rewarded in the Aakhirah. It is not to show off in front of others that you have memorized a lot. Sincerity is not a one time factor rather it’s a continual battle that you always have to renew.

2. Consistency . The more frequently you memorize, the easier it becomes. It is very essential to be consistent, and not to skip even one day. There is no Week-end in worship. The bare minimum that one should memorize is at least 3 lines, 5 is more ideal. If you are consistent, inshAllah, you will be able to be huffadh in 5-6 years

3. Timing. The first thing you should do in the day is memorize – even do so before your breakfast, because this is your spiritual breakfast. The best time to memorize is right after Fajr. . (sh. Yasir used to take one hour to memorize a page in the beginning, and eventually came down to 15-20 minutes)

4. Atmosphere. Have a secluded place to go to and memorize in a place that is quiet. You just can’t memorize properly with distractions, so turn off all your devices (like cell phones)

5. Familiarity: start at the same time, at the same place and use the same mushaf every day. You need to have your own copy of the Mushaf (the Madani Mushaf is highly recommended), it will later become so dear to you.

6. No Magic trick: repeat, repeat, repeat, over and over again. It is just repetitive recitation and/or listening that will help to memorize.

7. Memorize with the meaning: read the translation before you start and try to match the Arabic words with their meanings

8. Surround yourself with recitation: listen to the Qur’an. Before you start memorize, listen to what you are about to memorize. Sh. Husary is highly recommended (see here the best resources to help you memorize)

9. Find a recitation buddy: get a friend, a family member or someone you know who will listen to your recitation every day. Ideally, get someone who is also memorizing to create a peer pressure system.

10. Recite daily in your salaat what you have memorized. If you forget one portion, you will immediately rush towards the Qur’an and correct your mistake and you will never do this mistake again.

11. Triple daily dose:

a) New memorization at your assigned time of the day

b) Revision of the previous 7 days, just before you start the new memorization: This is because the fastest thing you forget is the new memorization. And doing so, will also build the connector between the old ones and the new portion you are going to memorize. Plus, it will be a good warm up for the brain when you recall from your memory and recite, before you go into the real exercise of doing the new memorization.

c) At a later/another time of the day, revise those before the recent 7 days. The bare minimum should be 4-5 pages.

12. Do not jump around. Be consistent. Don’t try to go to another surah if you find it difficult and stick to the order. That way, you will have the satisfaction of having completed a juz rather than leaving some portions here and there.

13. The three chunks. Start from the back. Shorter surahs will bring you a big boost. You should divide the memorization of the Qur’an in three parts:

a) Juz 28, 29, 30 or just Juz 29, 30

b) Surah Al-Kahf till Juz 28

c) Surah Al-Baqara to Surah Al-Kahf

(JazakAllah Kheir to those who shared their notes from the class)

depicts from : http://muslimmatters.org/2009/10/27/13-steps-to-memorize-the-quran-by-yasir-qadhi/

Assalamualaikum,

i'm sorry for the delay in posting new posts. i've very busy nowadays.
anyway, i've discussed with my group mates on techniques and strategies to memorize the Quran easier, we went through some concepts in memory.


these are the techniques that we have discussed :

Repetition: I will read the Surahs until I am familiar with it..

Phonological Loop: I will listen to the recitation from the imams.

Repetition and Phonological Loop: I will read the Surah while listening to the imams.

Meaningful Learning: I will try to understand the meaning while listening the verse.

Chunking and Maintenance Rehearsal: I will memorize the Surah by dividing the verses. For example: Yaa-sin has 83 verses, so I divides to 10 verses per day. Every time I has memorize the new verses, I need to remember back the verses that I have memorized before.Same goes to Al-Mulk.
and if the verse is very long, i could chunk it into meaningful short sentences, so it'll be easier to remember.

Visual Imagery: after I have finished memorized the whole Surah, I can write down the surah back without looking to the Quran.

Rote Learning: then, I can ask help from my friend to listen and correct my recitation of the Surahs or tasmi'..

i hope we all could benefit from this. let's try...!
may allah make it easy for easy for us... insyaAllah

BismillahirRahmani Rahim

BismillahirRahmani Rahim,

I begin in the name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
I create this blog for the sake of Allah, and also my lecturer demand for this blog as part of our assignment. I will post the progress of my memorizing and learning methods and outcome. I hope i would benefit from this and as well aas others, insyaAllah.