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Learning processes can be plotted out by using these.
What is a graph?
100
If the material is not interesting, it takes longer to learn. Learning is more of a struggle because motivation and this factor are only moderate.
How does attention influence the timing of learning?
100
The learning and reproduction of the material are connected with the condition of the body at the time of learning. Taking in any chemical will alter a person's bodily condition or state, and that can affect learning.
What is state dependent learning?
100
Learning task A will carry over to learning task B, if there are similarities between them.
What is transfer of learning?
100
This is required because of the complexity and amount of material stored in the brain.
Why is an organized search required?
200
The influence of attention on learning is only one of the things that can be shown.
What are things that can be shown using graphs?
200
The graphing of the learning process is called this.
What is the learning curve?
200
This group learns very quickly when their survival are at state. They become primed for learning at the discovery of a source of food.
What are animals?
200
Learning carries over. For example, airline pilots learn in simulators and can use that experience in flying aircraft. This takes place when some useful similarity exists between what you have learned in the past and the new material.
What is positive transfer?
200
This process helps us to focus on the important. When we learn something new, it must be stored in the correct area. Otherwise, the chances of retrieving that information are remote. There is some feeling that a fair part of what we call "intelligence" must be the ability to store and ________ information properly.
What is blocking out information?
300
This refers to a person's alert focusing on material.
What is attention?
300
Some of these, like caffeine, can actually increase learning. Strong ones like amphetamines can overstimulate the brain and cause the loss of learning.
What is a stimulant?
300
Long and boring stories are less easily retained than something with high interest. Emotional involvement increases learning.
What does the interest level of a subject have to do with learning?
300
It takes place when old learning interferes with new learning. For example, if you learn to drive on an automatic shift, learning a stick shift can be difficult.
What is negative transfer?
300
This is an effective method for storing learned material by using a maximum number of associations, as long as the associations make sense. Especially useful are colorful associations that grad your attention and help tie all the information together.
What is the elaboration process?
400
Chemicals are activated in the brain that aid our ability to learn. Even accidental learning requires a minimum of this.
What is attention and the processes associated with it?
400
Some forms of these like tranquilizers or alcohol can block the firing of brain nerve cells and reduce learning. So will hot dogs or cold cuts, if three or more are eaten.
What are depressants?
400
It can increase learning in moderation. After that point, it can detract from learning.
How does humor affect learning?
400
Learning and reproducing what we learn. This is another term for the methods by which we take in, analyze, store, and bring back the various things that we learn.
What is information processing?
400
These are unusual associations made to material in order to aid memory. They are not logical, but they can help you remember information. They can replace thinking, rote memorization, which is the most difficult learning process because it lacks associations with material you already know. If you can already make sense of whatever you are trying to remember, don't use this method.
What are mnemonic devices?
500
It refers to each attempt to recite the material after a session of memorizing.
What is a trial?
500
The body will product its own chemicals to assist in the task.
What happens when a person is excited about learning?
500
S/he can increase learning for a while, but later unpleasantness can become the focus of attention, and learning decreases.
How can an unpleasant teacher affect learning?
500
A person who uses one of these goes through a series of steps, bringing various bits of stored mental information together in an ordered sequence before giving an answer. It is an organized and systematic approach to answering questions or solving problems. It is an outline or pattern.
What is a schema?
500
Sometimes students who are mentally handicapped benefit from the organization structures of this method. This method can help all of us, however. Making associations between people and significant characteristics can help us to remember names. A woman with a lot of hair named Harriet can be remembered as Hairy-et.
Who might be helped by mnemonic devices?
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