Effective studying requires effective study strategies and techniques, but it also requires the right conceptualization of what studying is.

00:00 Introduction
00:54 The big misconception
1:54 What makes human memory different from a computer's
3:47 Some benefits and drawbacks to the human memory system
4:39 The key question

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REFERENCES

The laundry passage comes from this famous 1972 paper, and is often used as a simple example of the power of prior knowledge.

Bransford, J. D., & Johnson, M. K. (1972). Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 11(6), 717726. http://www.ebbinghaus.ru/wpcontent/u...

The twodifferentsensesoffoot demonstration comes from this paper, where the group who were cued to think of two different senses of the toberemembered word remembered it better than those who only were cued to think of one sense of that word.

Gartman, L. M., & Johnson, N. F. (1972). Massed versus distributed repetition of homographs: A test of the differentialencoding hypothesis. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(6), 801808. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Both of these are also cited in a Robert Bjork paper from 1979. Worth reading. Going to do a full video on this paper soon.

Bjork, R. A. (1979). Information‐processing analysis of college teaching. Educational Psychologist, 14(1), 1523. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...

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