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Important in making a chunk
Focused Attention
Practice to gain mastery
Understanding the basic idea
Transfer
The idea that a chunk you’ve mastered in one area can often help you much more easily learn chunks of information in different areas that can share surprising commonalities.
Deliberate practice
Focusing intently on the parts of the problem that are more difficult to you
Seratonin
affects social life and risk taking behavior
violent criminals have low levels
Dopamine
signals in relation to unexpected rewards
Acetylcholine
affects focused learning and attention
"Einstellung'"
when your initial thought, an idea you already have in mind, or a neural pattern you’ve already developed and strengthened, prevents a better idea or solution from being found, or keeps you from being flexible enough to accept new, better, or more appropriate solutions
Understanding
Can you create a chunk if you don’t understand? Yes, but it’s often a useless chunk that won’t fit in with or relate to other material you are learning
Understanding is like a superglue that helps hold the underlying memory traces together
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