The Most Common Obstacle to Effective Studying
Effective studying requires effective study strategies and techniques, but it also requires the right conceptualization of what studying is.
00:00 Introduction
00:54 The big misconception
1:54 What makes human memory different from a computer's
3:47 Some benefits and drawbacks to the human memory system
4:39 The key question
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REFERENCES
The laundry passage comes from this famous 1972 paper, and is often used as a simple example of the power of prior knowledge.
Bransford, J. D., & Johnson, M. K. (1972). Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 11(6), 717-726. http://www.ebbinghaus.ru/wp-content/u...
The two-different-senses-of-foot demonstration comes from this paper, where the group who were cued to think of two different senses of the to-be-remembered word remembered it better than those who only were cued to think of one sense of that word.
Gartman, L. M., & Johnson, N. F. (1972). Massed versus distributed repetition of homographs: A test of the differential-encoding hypothesis. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(6), 801-808. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Both of these are also cited in a Robert Bjork paper from 1979. Worth reading. Going to do a full video on this paper soon.
Bjork, R. A. (1979). Information‐processing analysis of college teaching. Educational Psychologist, 14(1), 15-23. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
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