Chunking

Question 1

What are ways chunking can help you

Answer 1

• It frees up slots in your working memory so you can manage more information.

Question 2

What’s the most effective way to learn new material.

Answer 2

• Recall (mini tests)

It’s more effective than re-reading, concept maps (at the beginning), or highlighting.

Question 3

What does a library of chunks help you do?

Answer 3

It helps make it easier for you to see the relationships between the chunks.

Question 4

How effective is going over something over and over again in the same session?

Answer 4

Not very effective.

A better strategy is after you’ve mastered it in that session put it down and come back to it to see if you remember. Also do deliberate practice to master the hardstuff otherwise you might just know the easy stuff.

Question 5

How does recall help learning?

Answer 5

It strengthens those neural connections, just the process of recall helps deepen yoru learning.

Question 6

How can you make sure you’re not fooling yourself into thinking you know the material?

Answer 6

Do mini-tests of the material on yourself.

Question 7

What is chunk like compared to a web technology.

Answer 7

it’s like a hyperlink to another page with a lot more info.

Question 8

What different ways should you recall to make sure you’re not associating the learned material with cues in your environment?

Answer 8

learn in a variety of different environments.

Question 9

How can mistakes be good for learning?

Answer 9

They help you correct your thinking little by little.

Question 10

What’s the process of creating chunks?

Answer 10

At first when you’re just learning the material, the materiall takes up all your working memory as you struggle with it. As you start the learn it, it takes up less working memory slots until when you’ve mastered the material it might just take up one working memory slot.

Question 11

What is a chunk?

Answer 11

Neural patterns that’s connected to each other through meaning or use.

Question 12

What’s helpful in forming a chunk

Answer 12

Start small, look at the details, look at how they’re related

Question 13

why is concept mapping not helpful at the beginning

Answer 13

you’ve got to solidify the individual chunks before you try to form the connections between them

Question 14

what is chunking

Answer 14

uniting bit of information so they form a solid interconnecting piece that’s easy for the mind to handle. they can be connected through meaing or frequent use.

Question 15

how does use help chunking

Answer 15

the focus mode of learning heps knit the peices together. the act of using those piece help the neurons learn to work together

Question 16

what’s also important in chucking

Answer 16

learning how the pieces fit together

Question 17

what’s helpful in the process of chunking

Answer 17

• get a general overview first
• learning individual pieces or key concepts then trying to link them.

Question 18

when learning from a worked out problem what’s important to remember?

Answer 18

not just the details but why and each step works. keep in mind the connections.

Question 19

what’s bottom up learning

Answer 19

focusing on the details of each piece practice

Question 20

what’s top down learning

Answer 20

the big picture

how each piece fits into the grand scheme of things

when to use one individual technique vs another.