PSYCH 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Metacognition, Relate, Multiple Choice
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Day 14- strategies for improving learning and memory. Improving learning: learning is misunderstood, to learn, retrieve, mix it up, embrace difficulties, avoid illusions of knowing, the myth of learning styles, encoding strategies. Learning is misunderstood: we often engage in the least effective memory strategies because the feel like they work, learning is a skill that requires effort and deliberative practice. If you do it right, you can study less and learn more. To learn retrieve: engage in retrieval practice, testing effects, tests are not just a means of assessment; they are learning opportunities (karpicke & roediger, 2008), based on a long-standing, robust finding the generation effect. Car: bus: testing is superior to re-studying, works with a variety of test types. Open book and closed book similar for long-term retention: feedback is important. Reduces later false memory for incorrect responses: spacing out testing results in dramatic improvements in retention (karpicke &
