How Remembering Works—and Why Forgetting Is Normal
5 learning units · ~19 minutes
How your memory takes in new things and lets them go again, and what this means for your learning: group material into larger units, check what you can do without the source in front of you instead of rereading, and accept the effort of retrieval as part of learning. At the end come the two techniques the following sessions build on: self-testing and spaced practice.
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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