Psychological concepts and studying Flashcards

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inattentional blindness is…

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when we miss anything that happens outside of our focus but believe that we have seen everything

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the cost of multitasking

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things like listening to music are splitting your attention
multitasking can more than double the time it takes to perform a task

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short-term memory is…

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the memory for what you are doing right now

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limitations of short-term memory

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limited capacity: incoming items can push out existing item
duration: gone after 30 seconds

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solutions for STM limitations

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rehearsing: repeating info over and over again
chunking: organizing seperate bits of info into a chunk

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spaced practice

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multiple study sessions

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elaboration

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making meaningful associations

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retrieval practice

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testing yourself(recalling)

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overlearning

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keep studying regardless

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organization

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organizing info you want to remember

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rhyme

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making rhymes

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first letter technique

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acronyms to use one word to remember many words

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method of loci

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visualizing ideas in areas of somewhere familiar

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keyword method

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good for learning languages

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Metacognition is…

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a student’s awareness of their level of understanding of a topic (students with poor metacognition don’t realize they don’t know something) overconfidence: they believe they have a good understanding but it is shallow

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