Learning
The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, practice, or being taught
What is learning?
Focused, repetitive practice of one thing at a time
What is massed practice?
This strengthens retention when it is slightly delayed instead of immediate
What is feedback?
Learners write about what they learned in their own words
What is "write to learn?"
The belief that your intelligence rests in your own hands
What is growth mindset?
Bringing information to mind to boost learning
What is retrieval practice?
Spreading out practicing across a long period of time
What is spaced practice?
More of this leads to greater retention results
What is effort/cognitive effort?
Monitoring your own thinking
What is metacognition?
Mental tools to help hold material in memory
What are mnemonic devices?
Form of retrieval practice, act of taking a few minutes to review what has been learned from an experience
What is reflection?
Mixing subjects or topics while studying or practicing
What is interleaving?
Short-term impediments that make for stronger learning
What are desirable difficulties?
Ability to reason, see relationships, think abstractly
What is fluid intelligence?
A complex type of mnemonic device that is useful for organizing and holding large volumes of material in memory
What are memory palaces?
The process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know
What is elaboration?
Practicing a skill in different environments or varying a task
What is varied practice?
The feeling that you know something and no longer need to practice it
What is the familiarity trap?
Accumulated knowledge and the mental models developed from past learning
What is crystallized intelligence?
1) Initial test; 2) Reflection, practice, spacing; 3)Test again
What is dynamic testing?
Practicing retrieval to make learning stick
What is the testing effect?
The act of trying to answer a question or attempting to solve a problem before being presented with the information or solution
What is generation?
Understanding of the interrelationships of the basic elements within a larger structure that enable them to function together
What is conceptual knowledge?
The process of strengthening mental representations for long-term memory
What is consolidation?
The act of extracting important ideas and constructing a mental framework out of them (can be high or low)
What is structure building?