ECON 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metacognition
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Where does he work: he is a professor of psychology at samford university in birmingham, What does stephen chew mean by deep processing : thinking about material meaningfully, interpreting the information, and relating it to your prior knowledge or experience or creating a mental image of the information. What does stephen chew think about students" ability to multi-task while they are studying: we fool ourselves that we"re good at multi-tasking because these distractions are more fun than studying. In order to succeed, you must reduce or even eliminate the distractions. For every distraction you have, you reduce the amount you learn, increase the time that it takes to understand the material, and increase the chance for a bad grade. How is this connected to students" confidence in their studies: it refers to your awareness of how well you truly understand a concept.
