PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mental Model, Concept Map, Transverse Mode
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Learning strategies: activity that the learner engages in during learning, with the intention of improving the learning outcomes: ex: taking notes (on computer vs handwriting), rationale. Strategies that encourage selecting, organizing, and integrating are helpful (generative learning strategies that help get the facts in your head) Summarizing involves selecting the main ideas from the lesson: organizing them into a more concise cognitive representation. Integrating them with prior knowledge by restating the material in one"s own words: empirical rationale. Summary group - generate a summary sentence that expressed the main idea for each paragraph: heading group - given a two-word heading for each paragraph that summarize the main idea. Selecting - learners choose which pieces of information are most important for inclusion in the summary: organizing - learners relate the *pieces of information to each other within a coherent summary. Integrating - by using your own words, learners relate the material to relevant prior knowledge.
