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Developing Discrimination Skills

Putting new knowledge into a larger context helps learning.

Studying the Testing Effect in the Lab

To be most effective, retrieval must be repeated again and again, in spaced out sessions so that the recall, rather than becoming a mindless recitation, requires some cognitive effort.

But every time you learn something new, you change the brain—the residue of your experiences is stored.

Learning Is Misunderstood

As the sports adage goes, “practice like you play and you will play like you practice.”

To be desirable, a difficulty must be something learners can overcome through increased effort.

The more we do, the more we can do. To embrace this principle and reap its benefits is to be sustained through life by a growth mindset.