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How People Learn: Memory and Cognitive Load

You found the perfect YouTube video to learn something you’ve been struggling with. But the background music is too damn loud for you to focus on the content! Your professor is brilliant, but their online tutorial has cluttered slides and it is not clear how the pictures and labels correspond. Both of these are examples […]

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How People Learn: What Frisbees Have to Do With Memory

Short-term memory is just that: short! If you have ever forgotten what you were looking for between one room and the next, you can understand that information that resides only in short-term memory is worth nothing at all. Short-term memory is only intended, really, to work on a current thought. Perhaps wondering where you left […]

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How People Learn: “Learning Styles” and Memory

How do you learn best? By watching, listening, doing? You likely have a preference. You might even refer to that preference as your personal “learning style,” a concept that states each unique brain learns things in a unique way. The truth is, though, that individuals are more alike than they are different because human brain […]