PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Robert A. Bjork, Tabula Rasa, Experimental Psychology
9 Jun 2019
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Student often tend to forget to account for the fact that when re-reading and reviewing the information is right in front of them, and when it comes to testing, that information is not available. Don"t sit and re-read for hours on end, try to come up with your own examples, summarize, test yourself, can you produce the information yourself input less, output more". Fluency - immediate sense that you understand the material, when you read something for a second time it flows easier which makes you feel as though you understand it, when in fact you may not. Cognition: collection of mental processes and activities in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding, as well as the act of using those processes. So many different forms and contextes, depends on the circumstance, much more complex than you would think. Letters and words are actually symbols, they are arbitrary symbols assigned phonetic sound and meaning. Often have to devise solution to something.
