Make it Stick Chapter 5-6
- Avoid Illusions of Knowing
- metacognition: monitoring your own thinking
- we are all hardwired to make errors in judgment
- we overestimate our competence
- we are easily misled
- two systems of knowing
- automatic and immediate
- controlled, slower process of conscious analysis
- memory can be distorted
- imagination inflation: believes a vivid imaginary event is actually a memory
- suggestion: the way a question is asked may distort the memory of an event
- interference from other events
- curse of knowledge / hindsight bias: our tendency to underestimate how long it will take to learn something that we’ve already mastered
- accounts that sound familiar can create the feeling of knowing and be mistaken for true
- fluency illusions: tendency to mistake fluency with a text for mastery of its content
- memories are subject to social influence and align with the memories of the people around us
- social contagion of memory
- false consensus effect: humans assume that others share their beliefs
- mental models
- Dunning-Kruger effect: incompetent people overestimate their own competence, so they see no need to improve
- Get Beyond Learning Styles
- what you tell yourself about your ability plays a part in shaping the ways you learn and perform
- learning styles don’t really exist
- when the instructional style matches the nature of the content, all learners learn better
- fluid intelligence: ability to think abstractly
- crystallized intelligence: one’s accumulated knowledge of the world
- Howard Gardner: there are 8 kinds of intelligence
- Robert Sternberg: analytical, creative, and practical intelligence