I'm also confused at to why I didn't learn this way earlier in life. This would have made studying way easier.
-Learning is taking the information given to you and remembering it. Learning has everything to do with memorization. For teachers, we need to know how to best present the information so our students can each memorize it in their own way. The more ways you present a topic, the more students will learn the information.
-If a euphonium player were learning how to play a concert F, their sensory motor would register all the information from their senses. The would know how the instrument feels when held, what muscles they used and how they used them to create the sound, along with a lot of other information they don't need. The note would definitely be a loud stimuli, a new thing, and hopefully something they wanted to learn and be personally important. BEcause of these things, it would be put to working memory. Now they can use the F in context by reading a line of music that has an F. By repeating the playing of the F, they are committing it to long term memory. It would start as explicit knowledge then after years of playing, move to implicit knowledge.
To answer your question about brushing teeth, I think that brushing your teeth starts out as an effortful process. Once you have learned how to brush your teeth and it has become a "habit," (where you do it everyday) it becomes automatic. Like the example gave in the book, when you read, you must use effort every time you read and give your complete focus. Where reading is "new" every time, unless you are reading the same book, you must put effort in to read and understand the story. Where brushing your teeth, it is the same motion over and over that does not require complete focus once mastered. I hope this makes sense and clears up this concept!
ReplyDeleteEverything is in the effortful processing stage when you are first learning it, but after a while you can go onto autopilot. When you can go on autopilot, you are in automatic processing. The book assumes that you have been brushing your teeth for years now and no longer have to fully concentrate on the task.
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