Active recall

Question 1

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Answer 1

The first man to contact studies on forgetting and retention

Question 2

How much information is forgotten in the span of 9 hours?

Answer 2

about 60% of the information learnt

Question 3

Spaced practice

Answer 3

Hermann Ebbinghaus also discovered that one may beat the forgetting curve by spacing out rehearsal time (one may also forget if the information learnt is not reviewed)

Question 4

Spaced repetition

Answer 4

the act of learning material then rehearsing it increasingly in a repeated amount of time.

Question 5

How much information can one retain?

Answer 5

The ( 7+2/7-2) method. George Miller discovered after carrying out an experiment, that on average a person can recall between 5 and 9 numbers, but on average 7 digits.

Question 6

Rajveer Meena

Answer 6

A man from India that was able to memorize the pi upto 70,000. decimal places

Question 7

Anders Ericson

Answer 7

Was a swedish psychologist who carried out studies on performance. He discovered that talents are not innate abilities, but success could be achieved by putting a lot of work and effort.

Question 8

What are the ordinary limit of the human mind?

Answer 8

Anders Ericson and Steve Faloon carried out a study to discover how many numbers steve could recall after repeatedly rehearsing the digits. In the span of a year and a half, he could recall 82 digits.

Question 9

Deliberate practice

Answer 9

Anders Ericson came up with the term “deliberate and purposeful practice”

Question 10

Elements of deliberate practice

Answer 10

1. Purposeful practice has well-defined- specific goals
2. Purposeful practice is focused
3. Purposeful practice involves feedback
4. Purposeful practice involves getting out of your comfort zone.

Question 11

Purposeful practice involves feedback

Answer 11

This means that working on small elements of a piece of work is more effective than working on the whole piece all at once.

Question 12

Purposeful practice involves getting out of your comfort zone

Answer 12

Only focusing on the specific part of a task

Question 13

Purposeful practice has well-defined- specific goals

Answer 13

getting feedback which means that the work you’re doing does not have to be perfect

Question 14

Purposeful practice is focused

Answer 14

Trying something that you have not attempted keeping in mind that there’s the possibility of failing

Question 15

Is active recall limited to age?

Answer 15

Memory can be improved and the trick is to pay attention. This was proved by a 44 year old woman who was able to improve her memory in a span of three months.

Question 16

What are the strategies of beating the forgetting curve?:

Answer 16

1. Active recall
2. Repeated recall/retesting
3. Spaced retention

Question 17

Flashcards

Answer 17

a study method (either on paper on on a device) that force someone to active recall

Question 18

Active recall

Answer 18

It is considered the best way to retain information.
It i the act of trying to remember learnt information without referring back to books or notes.
Active recall signals the brain that the information learnt is worth remembering.

Question 19

Repeated recall/ retesting

Answer 19

include the 3+3 rule. One is more likely to forget something. if they only study ones.
In order to recall information, one should be able to recite the information they’ve learnt at least three times

Question 20

Spaced retention

Answer 20

This is the act of spacing out active recall retests for extended periods of time.
study shows that self-practice tests that have longer spaced out periods are more effective than those done all at once.

Question 21

How is space retention beneficial to bees?

Answer 21

In a certain study, bees were trained to recognise sugar. Bees that had been trained after 10 minutes performed better than those that were trained after every 30 seconds.

Question 22

How is spaced retention beneficial to the brain?

Answer 22

When one practices spaced retention, the parts of the brain responsible for retention of information is activated more.

Question 23

What are the strategies of practicing active recall?

Answer 23

1. Making flashcards
2. Quizlet
3. Practice tests
4. Practicing active recall with friends.
5. Practice problems

Question 24

Paper or digital flashcards?

Answer 24

Research found that paper flash cards were more effective, but phone flashcards were also as effective, because they were available at any place/time.

Laptop/desktop flashcards were not as effective.

Question 25

Practice problems

Answer 25

one is more likely to remember solutions to their problems if they practice everyday, rather than doing a large chunk all at once.

Question 26

Why is deliberate practice important?

Answer 26

Skill development is only achieved through a tremendous amount of practice

Question 27

When is the best time to schedule one’s recall?

Answer 27

It is effective to schedule one’s active recall immediately after the class. One may set up reading blocks (as low as 15 minutes) in that day, and practice the “3+3 rule” a week before exams.