Week Five: Effective Learning Strategies

Question 1

What does practicing recall do?

Answer 1

create neurological connections in the brain between information you try to recall and other related information. you also build connections between information with little conscious effort.

Question 2

What is the spacing effect

Answer 2

Spacing studying over time is better than doing all at once

Question 3

What is the lag effect?

Answer 3

Longer lags between study sessions are better than shorter lags

Question 4

Why does elaborative interrogation work?

Answer 4

Elaborative interrogation enhances learning by supporting the integration of new information with existing prior knowledge.