Chuncks

Question 1

What is a chunk?

Answer 1

• Collection of neurons or memory strands usually related by context (like a hook)
• formed by repeatedly bringing the same set of neurons or memory strands into focused memory
• Can be any size - playing piano or sport or a combination or letters to make a work
• Takes a single slot of focused memory

Question 2

Why is rereading content not as efficient as other learning methods?

Answer 2

• Re-consuming the same content isn’t enough to develop your own understand of material
• e.g. seeing someone do a perfect squat isn’t enough to be able to do it, you have to make the connections yourself
• to strength association between neurons you have to recall their association from memory yourself

Question 3

How dose your environment when learning effect memory creation?

Answer 3

• environmental conditions form part of the chunks as your learning
• recalling in different locations and at different time can strength your understanding of concepts and ideas by adding different hooks from the environment

Question 4

Forming a Chunk

Answer 4

Focused Attention

• bring ideas and memory strands into working memory
• pomodoro possibly

Understanding the concept

• ensure you understand the concept
• seeing or knowing an answer written isn’t understanding, you must know the concepts
• “Understanding is like a super glue that helps hold the underlying memory traces together”

Practice

• recall memories yourself using your own neural network to master material
• mini tests immediately after learning and testing yourself with flash cards
• spaced repetition allows diffused mode to strengthen synapsis in between learning

Question 5

Why is Recall Important?

Answer 5

• recalling related memories build stronger synapsis between them strengthening chunks
• rereading or reconsuming the same content isn’t extending your own neural network or strengthening relationships between your neurons
• the stronger the synapsis the strong the chunks

Question 6

Why is highlighting possibly a bad learning technique?

Answer 6

• highlighting when done wrong is an illusion of competence
• can give the illusion that the highlighting is sticking the idea in memory
• efficient highlighting is usually no more then a single work or phrase in a paragraph
• handwritten side notes work better

Question 7

Is re reading a text book alone efficient? Why?

Answer 7

No.
Just rereading text dose nothing to connect ideas together and therefore creating stronger chunks in memory.
Making connection between individual memories and / or chunk in working memory is how to develop strong synapses.

Spaced repetition dose show signs of retention however.

Question 8

Transfer?

Answer 8

• Chinks can be related to each other in different ways
• diffuse mode allows the brain to relate seemingly unrelated chunks in creative and imaginative ways
• Incomplete