How To Study Based on Psychology

Question 1

What are 6 BAD ways to study that are actually common

Answer 1

-reading material over and over
-staying up late the night before and cramming
-rewriting notes
-just memorizing definitions
-highlighting
-making material fit to your learning style

Question 2

What are 6 GOOD ways to study

Answer 2

-spreading out your studying over many days
-flashcards
-mixing up materials from different topics
-questioning yourself
-applying the information to your own life
-no distractions

Question 3

What is “Inattentional Blindness”

Answer 3

When you miss something outside of your centre of focus but you THINK that you have seen everything when you haven’t
(think colour changing video)

Question 4

Does Multitasking improve learning and why

Answer 4

No because it isn’t as efficient and takes 3 times longer than non distracted study

Question 5

Short Term Memory has limited capacity and needs to squeeze through what to enter Long Term memory (hard to get through)

Answer 5

a Bottle neck

Question 6

What is “Active Engagement”

Answer 6

to relate well to the material and making connections from different information

Question 7

What is “distributed practice”

Answer 7

where you distribute your studying across multiple sessions rather that studying everything in one session

Question 8

Why is distributed practice effective

Answer 8

because it allows the information to sink into your brain and to actively engage in the material

Question 9

what is “Interleaving”

Answer 9

mixing up topics while your studying rather than studying just one specific topic

Question 10

what is deep processing

Answer 10

processing thats focused on meaning and comprehension and sometimes visual imagery

Question 11

what is the opposite of deep processing

Answer 11

shallow processing

Question 12

what is “Dual Coding”

Answer 12

combining verbal and visual materials

making two ways to get information out of ur memory

Question 13

What is “retrieval practice”

Answer 13

practicing recalling and using information

Question 14

what are some examples of retrieval practice

Answer 14

Doing homework problems
Making your own questions so you can practice Retrieving the answer
Flashcards
Brain dump

Question 15

What is a brain dump

Answer 15

writing down everything you know about a concept down on a paper and then checking what you got wrong or missed

Question 16

What is Metacognition

Answer 16

a persons awareness of his or her level of understanding about a topic

Question 17

What is the difference between poor metacognition and good metacognition

Answer 17

Poor metacognition is thinking you know a topic really well but you actually don’t

Good metacognition is thinking you know a topic really well and actually knowing the topic really well

Question 18

What are 4 behaviors of a person with Poor Metacognition

Answer 18

1. Overconfidence
   2.Starts to study way too late
   3.Doesn’t study enough (stops too soon)
   4.Thinking they have good study strategies

Question 19

What is the Dunning Kruger Effect

Answer 19

when someone who doesn’t have much knowledge on a topic overestimates their understanding of it

Question 20

What are the 4 steps of the “intense study Sessions”

Answer 20

1. set a goal
2. study with focus
3. reward yourself
4. review