Brain
New knowledge is integrated with what you already know when you do this.
Sleep
The group that performed more poorly did so because they did this.
True or false: Reading your your science vocabulary words over and over is an effective study habit.
False
Recalling information actively does this to your memories.
Strengthens them
It can be a matter of life and death for these individuals to remember their skills.
Who are medical students.
When your brain makes connections between different subjects, this is strengthened.
Memory
Memories are strengthened when groups of these fire together repeatedly.
Neurons
In 2006, a research project split a group of students into two groups to analyze how they learned the best way to perform this task.
Surgeries
This strategy is important because it forces your brain to recall information actively, which helps strengthen your memory.
Testing yourself (with flashcards or quizzes)
Hippocampus
The group that performed better surgeries spaced their studying out over this amount of time, instead of cramming it into one day.
4 weeks
You are studying math and history and you switch between solving math problems and reading about historical events. This technique is called ________.
Interleaving
Knowledge is strengthened when we reactivate these.
Long-term memories
The medical students' long term memories of how to perform surgeries are stored here.
Neocortex
This gives your brain more time to process and store information.
Review a little bit each day