PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Chronometry, Eye Tracking, Robert A. Bjork
17 Apr 2018
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Things like re reading can make you feel that you have learned something and remembered, it feels good because you have the notes on hand with the ques that help you. Things that make you feel like you know it in the moment do not promote long term retention but things that make you struggle promote long term retention. Robert bjork; difficult strategies are actually desirable. I. e. the concept of fluency makes it familiar to you and we mistake this for understanding, if we write an essay it will sound better to us when we re read it than maybe to a first time reader. Collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking and understanding, as well as the act of using those processes. Wilhelm wundt: developed the idea of introspect the mind can be understood by carefully looking inward and reporting on inner sensations.
