Mental Drop-Out

Kani is a JSS student in an international school in Lagos. She is good at everything she does apart from the fact that she easily forget the things she learn in the classroom. She can remember pretty well all other activities she is involved in. For instance, after days of watching a movie she can repeat the lines of each speaker word-for- word. However, classroom instruction is for her a very great difficulty.
This is the sad reality of many students who read often and attend classes regularly but it is always as if they never did any of those because they forget everything easily.
This situation is called Mental Drop-out. It is a situation in which people forget so easily the things they are learning either through books or classroom instruction. Mental Drop-out is often caused by some psychological imbalance and it could be so frustrating that one could loose hope in one's  learning competence. Three major factors are responsible for it. The first is Meaningfulness: the brain is a network or a system that process information in a meaningful way, when an information to be learnt do not communicate meaning to the learner the item becomes difficult to learn. The second is perception and attention: they are both cognitive process that involves focusing on a particular stimulus. However, focusing a stimulus go alongside a goal and whenever that goal those not align with the certain procedures, mental Drop-out happens. For example if a teacher teaches for practical reasons why the students want to learn simply for exam reason, the philosophical clash can result into mental Drop-out. The last cause is interest. When the level of interest of a learner is not satisfactory enough to cope with the challenges of a content it leads to Drop-out.

Nevertheless, the complications that is always closely attached to Mental Drop-out makes it difficult for experts to just recommend proscription without carrying out some test, therefore constant forgetting may require that you see a  counsellor. However, an high interest in what one does reduces the chances of mental Drop-out.