Yes that is interesting. It would explain a few things. I know in my
experience if I'm reading something that I find very interesting and
easy to understand I assume that I will remember it better, and get very
frustrated when some time later I can't recall the information. This
might explain why.
Dougie
On 16/09/2011 18:53, George Wade wrote:
Fascinating. Will require a rewiring of old habits to try it out.
Easy when you're 71.
George
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/opinion/sunday/quality-homework-a-smart-idea.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
<https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/opinion/sunday/quality-homework-a-smart-idea.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all>
> Another common misconception about how we learn holds that if
information feels easy to absorb, we’ve learned it well. In fact,
the opposite is true. When we work hard to understand information,
we recall it better; the extra effort signals the brain that this
knowledge is worth keeping. This phenomenon, known as cognitive
disfluency, promotes learning so effectively that psychologists
have devised all manner of “desirable difficulties” to introduce
into the learning process:
>Interleaving produces the same sort of improvement in academic
learning....
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http://www.gwern.net
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