COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tropaeolum Tuberosum, 5,6,7,8, Motor Skill

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 100
• Professor: Mark Blair

Document Summary

Retrieval practice: more training = more recall, assumption: studying is the best way of learning information, training word pairs vs recall training, repeated retrieval practice is more effective than regular studying. More training pairs: mashua boat, mashua boat, mashua boat. Recall training is better: difficulty of retrieval. Does the difficulty of retrieval matter: more time between retrievals and making the study more difficult has better outcomes. Red (more delays) did better than blue (less delays) Number of successful retrievals during training (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 10) Bats using echolocation to navigate and locate prey (initial learning: retrieval practice more effective than re-studying highlighted sentences and re-studied passages. Concept mapping practice test retrieval practice study (short answer test: they believed concept mapping is better than retrieval practice, but study shows that retrieval practice is better in both cases.