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3 Tips on How to Maintain Motivation While Studying

KnowledgeOne

Set Clear and specific goals Setting specific goals helps in focusing cognitive resources. The brain is good at processing directed and well-defined tasks, and specific goals provide a clear direction for cognitive efforts. This signals to the brain that the information is important and shouldn’t be forgotten.

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Metacognition in 10 points

KnowledgeOne

For Flavell, metacognition “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them. In short, it allows us to acquire information about our environment and interpret it to regulate our behaviour. Are we really good at multitasking? Neuroscience: learning in 4 steps.

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Multitasking

Tony Karrer

As way of background for this month's big question - , I went to eLearning Learning and looked up Multitasking. Access to more information tools is not necessarily making people more efficient in their intellectual chores." " Will Thalheimer - Younger Generation NOT Good at Multitasking Either! Found some great posts.

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The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

TalentLMS

Multitasking with techno-stimulators: mobile phones, tablets, i-tunes and you get the drift. Visuals and auditory stimulation activates the brain to focus and process these information signals and make sense out of them. Another common and deceptively heroic habit, that we all are so proud of, is multitasking. The culprit?

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Information Overload: The Plague of Learning and Development

CLO Magazine

Consumers and buyers today have information at their fingertips, more discerning criteria for how they spend their money along with continuously shifting expectations. Studies show how information overload, multitasking and prolonged repetition impair productivity, performance and decision-making. The world has changed.

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Long-Term Memory: Its 3 Chronological Processes

KnowledgeOne

Our long-term memory can store an unlimited amount of information over a period ranging from a few hours to a lifetime. The 3 main chronological processes of long-term memory: Encoding: This is the processing of information from our senses so that it can be stored in memory. Are we really good at multitasking?

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The Emotional Connection with Print: How Books Impact Readers’ Experience?

Hurix Digital

From social media to streaming services, we constantly have information and entertainment available at our fingertips. The temptation to multitask can disrupt focus. Researchers believe that physical pages provide necessary cognitive markers that aid the reading process. The fixed text underscores important plot points.