Chunking Flashcards
In order to learn more efficiently and effectively, you want to avoid illusions of competence (that is, cheating yourself into thinking that you have already learned some material when you haven’t). Bearing this in mind, which TWO of the following study methods are the best to prevent you from falling into illusions of competence
Recall the main ideas of a text.
Test yourself to evaluate how well are you doing in your study process.
[Select the word that belongs in the blank space.] “_________” is the idea that a chunk you’ve mastered in one area can often help you much more easily learn chunks of information in different areas that can share surprising commonalities.
Transfer
Which of the following statements are true about chunks and/or chunking?
A. Improvising a new sentence in a new language you are learning involves the ability to creatively mix together various complex mini chunks and chunks (sounds and words) that you have mastered in the new language.
B. One of the first steps toward gaining expertise in academic topics is to create conceptual chunks—mental leaps that unite scattered bits of information through meaning.
C. Chunks can help you understand new concepts. This is because when you grasp one chunk, you will find that that chunk can be related in surprising ways to similar chunks not only in that field, but also in very different fields.
The videos used the analogy of an octopus to help you understand how the focused mode reaches through the slots of working memory to make connections in various parts of the brain. Which of the following observations related to the “octopus of attention” analogy are true?
When you are focusing your attention on something, it’s almost as if you have an octopus—the “octopus of attention”—that slips its tentacles through those four slots of working memory when necessary, to help you make connections to information you might have in various parts of your brain.
Three steps were mentioned as being vitally important in making a chunk. Pick those three things out from the list below.
Exercise
Focused attention.
Understanding of the basic idea.
Select the word that belongs in the blank space.] “_______ practice” is when you apply special extra attention in practicing the material that you find to be the most difficult. This is the type of practice that experts use to speed up their knowledge gain.
Deliberate
Fill the blank in the following statement by choosing the right term from the options given below
——– is where bottom up and top down learning meet.
Einstellung
Select which of the following statements are true about chunking:
