LTM and Learning

Question 1

What is metacognition?

Answer 1

Metacognition is awareness of your learning. It can regulate or control your learning.

Question 2

What is monitoring?

Answer 2

Monitoring is evaluating the process of learning or the current state of knowledge.

ex. explaining things to someone

Question 3

What is control?

Answer 3

Control is changing to behavior to adjust learning

Question 4

When do we monitor?

Answer 4

Questions to ask:
1) How much info?
2) How quickly?
3) How familiar?

What information do you use to determine if you know the information? FAMILIARITY

Question 5

How do we control our learning?

Answer 5

1) What to study: study guide, notes

2) Duration (how long)

3) How to study: give examples, teach to someone, and have deeper encoding

Question 6

HOW: What content from the LTM handout connects to effective studying?

Answer 6

Retrieval and Distributed practices are effective strategies for how we study.

Question 7

HOW: What is the desirable difficulty?

Answer 7

Desirable difficulty incorporates strategies in which students are exposed to material repeatedly over the course of the class to improve recall, and thereby, retention.

Ex. Testing effect

Desirable difficulty –> long-term learning

Question 8

HOW: What is the distributive practice?

Answer 8

It is spacing your learning out over time –> long-term learning

Question 9

HOW: What is retrieval practice?

Answer 9

It is a learning strategy that involves recalling information from memory. It is a testing effect, which can lead to long-term learning.

Question 10

1. Which of the following examples is an act of monitoring

a. Distributive practice
b. Asking if you can explain the content to a friend
c. Reading your notes three times
d. Creating your own examples

Answer 10

b. Asking if you can explain the content to a friend