PSYCH261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Revolution, External Storage, Tabula Rasa
10 Dec 2017
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The pen is mightier than the keyboard: advantages of longhand over laptop note taking - mueller & External storage - laptop stores more info (typing > writing) Encoding - what is taken down for later. Verbatim (laptop transcribing) vs. generative (longhand summarizing) Is verbatim overlap a proxy for depth of processing? (how do we encode things/ process meaning and application) University students asked to remember 5 ted talks; use either laptop or pen/paper. Conceptual application: not directly said, requires application. Does not differ in terms of factual type questions. Laptop students were far below the mean on conceptual. Laptop students did more work and wrote more down but did worse in task. Experiment 2 adding laptop with intervention. Laptop with intervention (using laptop like a notebook) Intervention people did slightly better on factual questions but still terrible on conceptual questions (even though they are aware of not typing word for word) Test-enhanced learning in the classroom: long-term improvements from quizzing.
