Ch 1 Flashcards
Encoding
How Info. gets in brain
Storage
How info is held onto
Retrieval
Ability to recall info.
Effective study methods
Practice tests
Spaced practice
Interleaved practice
Practice test
Ties the knot. When you recall information, it activates related information, allowing you to retrieve the information in more ways.
Spaced practice
Not cramming. You are less likely to process info in much detail if you recall info. after learning because it will be easier, allowing yourself to think you know it.
Interleaved Practice
Mix up the way you practise learning related content. Can help make connections easier. Practice discriminating between content.
Elaborative Interrogation
Asking why to a stated fact.
Self Explanation
Clarifying to yourself the reasoning behind your answer.
Less Effective Study Habits
Highlighting
Rereading
Summarization (why?)
Attend Every Lecture
get the most out of your classes by attending every lecture, instructors have limited time to get information across so it is important to attend.
Take Physical Notes
Get the most of your classes by writing physical notes, helps encourage more selective notes. Better way of encoding as you need to process.
Pay attention
Get the most out of you class. we aren’t as good at multitasking as we think.
Managing time
Take breaks
Eat the frog for breakfast
Mindset Theory
People tend to make over two assumptions about the malleability of various person attributes or characteristics.
