The Experiment That Teaches People How to Learn

encoding is what happens when you first try to understand some new material you might be watching a lecture or listening to a podcast or reading a book anything entering into your long-term memory is said to be encoded (View Highlight) #✂️

The Generation effect we remember more when we have to generate what we are trying to remember than when we just have to read what we are trying to remember (View Highlight) #✂️

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are two important factors driving the Improvement of learning in that second round first is having some experience with generation as an encoding strategy it wasn't enough to just tell people to do something different a sentence like this one forces you to use a generation like strategy to understand it getting experience with different encoding strategies seems really important to improve learning
more generally the second thing is that knowing what kind of test you are going to be taking informs you about what kinds of strategies are going to be effective this is one of the benefits of taking practice tests (View Highlight) #✂️