Getting Started 1 · How Remembering Works—and Why Forgetting Is Normal
5 learning units · ~19 minutes
How your memory takes in new information and lets it go again, and what follows from this for your learning: bundling material into larger units, checking what you can do without your notes instead of rereading, and accepting the effort of retrieval as part of learning. At the end come the two techniques of self-testing and spaced practice, which the course “Getting a Good Start at University” returns to again and again.
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Contents
What Happens in Your Head
- The Bottleneck: Why Four Things at a Time Have to Be Enough · approx. 4 min
- The Forgetting Curve—and What It Really Says · approx. 4 min
- Storing and Retrieving Are Two Different Things · approx. 3 min
What Follows from This
- The Familiarity Trap · approx. 4 min
- The Roadmap: What Works, What Achieves Little · approx. 4 min