L18 - Category Learning 2 Flashcards

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What is the Inert Knowledge Problem (Whitehead, 1929)?

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  • The process of understanding by learners does not happen to that extent where the knowledge can be used for effective problem-solving in real situations.
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What is ‘desirable difficulty’?

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  • When an increase in difficulty/mental effort is beneficial for learning.
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What is the best method of quizzing to foster learning?

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  • Transfer quizzes (testing relational categories) help both learning and definition.
  • Definition quizzes only help with learning the definition. They do not help transfer.
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What is interleaving?

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  • Interleaving refers to broken practice/mixing examples from different categories.
  • This is in contrast to massed/blocked practice common in most textbooks (one category at a time).
  • Massed practice DOES NOT require you to first categorise the problem.
  • Interleaving forces categorisation first.
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Are interleaving and desirable difficulties always the best study methods?

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  • Work from Rob Goldstone’s lab has shown that sometimes students self-selecting a blocking strategy can be beneficial, especially when within-category items are rather distinct from each other.
  • John Sweller has argued that desirable difficulties are not desirable when the material is so complex that it intrinsically maxes out working-memory capacity. Then any extra difficulty from learning- mode is harmful.
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