PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Robert A. Bjork, Psychological Science
17 May 2018
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PSYC 1010 Lecture 20 Notes
Introduction
Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
• Usig the Retieal Pactice uestios as ell as Lauchpad’s aied oppotuities,
devote extra study time to testing your knowledge and exploring psychology.
• Memory experts Elizabeth Bjork and Robert Bjork (2011) offer the bottom line for how
to improve your retention and your grades
• Spend less time on the input side and more time on the output side
• Such as summarizing what you have read from memory or getting together with friends
and asking each other questions.
• Any activities that involve testing yourself
• That is activities that require you to retrieve or generate information, rather than just
representing information to yourself
• Will make your learning both more durable and flexible
• Hoping to satisfy their curiosity about people and to remedy their own woes, millions
tu to psychology.
• They listen to talk-radio counseling.
• They read articles on psychic powers.
• They attend stop- smoking hypnosis seminars.
• They immerse themselves in self-help websites and books on the meaning of dreams,
the path to ecstatic love, and the roots of personal happiness.
• Others, intrigued by claims of psychological truth, wonder: How—and how much—does
paetig shape childe’s personalities and abilities?
• Are first-born children more driven to achieve?
• Do dreams have deep meaning?
• Does psychotherapy heal?
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