Chapter 2: Chunking Flashcards
How to form chunks?
Chunks are best built with focused attention, understanding the basic idea, and practice help you gain mastery and a sense of big picture concept. Simple recall is the best way to help forming chunks.
How to learn materials that contains steps?
Instead of focusing too much on a why a particular step works, zoom out my perspective and look at the problem at a bigger picture.
Instead of rereading text, what can you do?
Simply practice and recall. And do mini test.
What other way to do active recall?
Do active recall of past materials at different locations.
When stuck on learning, we can use metaphor, why?
Metaphor helps our brain to form connections between new and existing information.
It is best to avoid practice only on the easy stuff cause it brings illusion of competence. So what can we do?
We can do deliberate practice. Deliberately practice what you find more difficult can gain full mastery of the material.
In what way can we catch ourselves on illusion of competence.
We can catch ourselves by giving ourselves a little test or make mistakes.
