Chunking is the mental leap that helps you unite bits of information together through meaning. The new logical whole makes the chunk: easier to remember easier to fit the chunk into the larger picture of what you're learning

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Chunking

Q: How does chunking work?

Basically, a chunk means a network of neurons that are used to firing together so you can think a thought or perform an action smoothly and effectively . Focused practice and repetition, the creation of strong memory traces, helps you to create chunks.

Q: What do they say about “the octopus of attention”?

The octopus of attention that slips it's tentacles through the working memory to help you make connections to information that you might have in various parts of your brain. When you're focusing your attention on something it's almost as if you have an octopus.

Q: When the octopus of attention doesn’t work?

When you're stressed your attentional octopus begins to lose the ability to make some of those connections. And therefor it doesn't work right when you're: angry stressed afraid.

Q: How to gain an expert in academic topics?

To gain expertise in academic topics is to create conceptual chunks, mental leaps that unite scattered bits of information through meaning.

Q: What is true about learning something new?

When you first begin to learn something , you're making new neural patterns and connecting them with preexisting patterns that are spread through many areas of the brain.

Q: How does practicing helps your network of neurons?

Practice helps you broaden the networks of neurons that are connected to your chunk, ensuring it's not only firm, but also accessible fro many different paths.

16 important questions on Chunking

What is a chunk?

Chunking is the mental leap that helps you unite bits of information together through meaning. The new logical whole makes the chunk:

easier to remember
easier to fit the chunk into the larger picture of what you're learning

How does chunking work?

Basically, a chunk means a network of neurons that are used to firing together so you can think a thought or perform an action smoothly and effectively. Focused practice and repetition, the creation of strong memory traces, helps you to create chunks.

What do they say about “the octopus of attention”?

The octopus of attention that slips it's tentacles through the working memory to help you make connections to information that you might have in various parts of your brain. When you're focusing your attention on something it's almost as if you have an octopus.

What diverse “the octopus of attention” from diffuse mode?

It let your brain focus to connect parts the brain to tie together ideas and helps you to get started in creating a chunk.

When the octopus of attention doesn’t work?

When you're stressed your attentional octopus begins to lose the ability to make some of those connections. And therefor it doesn't work right when you're:

angry
stressed
afraid.

How to gain an expert in academic topics?

To gain expertise in academic topics is to create conceptual chunks, mental leaps that unite scattered bits of information through meaning.

Where can you apply chunks in to?

The concept of neural chunks also applies to:

sports
music
dance
just about anything that humans can get good at.

When does chunking not work?

If you had the television going on in the background, or you're looking up every few minutes to check or answer your phone or computer messages, it means you're going to have more difficulty in making a chunk, because your brain is not really focusing on chunking the new material.

What is true about learning something new?

When you first begin to learn something, you're making new neural patterns and connecting them with preexisting patterns that are spread through many areas of the brain.

How does practicing helps your network of neurons?

Practice helps you broaden the networks of neurons that are connected to your chunk, ensuring it's not only firm, but also accessible fro many different paths.

What happen when you look through a chapter in a book?

Doing a rapid two-minute picture walk through a chapter in a book before you begin studying it, glancing at pictures and section headings, can allow you to gain a sense of the big picture.

The basic steps of learning by psychologist Jeffrey Karpicke

Practising and recalling the material.
Rereading the text a number of times.
Drawing concept maps that supposedly enrich the relationships in the materials under study.

This improved learning comes whether students take a formal test, or just informally test themselves.

What are the benefits of the priciples of Jeffrey Karpicke

This will make your study time more focused and effective.

What is true about illusions of competence?

If you just look at the solution in a book, for example, then tell yourself. Oh yeah, I see why they did that. Then the solution is not really yours. You've done almost nothing to knit those concepts into your own underlying neural circuitry. Merely glancing at a solution and thinking you truly know it yourself is one of the most common illusions of competence in learning.

How to get rid off illusions of competence?

By testing your self. Recall what you learned over and over. It’s okay to make small mistakes, it’s actually a good thing. You want to try not repeat your mistakes.

Why is it good to practice in another room than the regular room you do?

Because you often take your test in a place or room that’s different from the room where you learning in. That helps you avoid the problem of the test room being different from where you originally learned the material.

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Chunking

16 important questions on Chunking

What is a chunk?

How does chunking work?

What do they say about “the octopus of attention”?

What diverse “the octopus of attention” from diffuse mode?

When the octopus of attention doesn’t work?

How to gain an expert in academic topics?

Where can you apply chunks in to?

When does chunking not work?

What is true about learning something new?

How does practicing helps your network of neurons?

What happen when you look through a chapter in a book?

The basic steps of learning by psychologist Jeffrey Karpicke

What are the benefits of the priciples of Jeffrey Karpicke

What is true about illusions of competence?

How to get rid off illusions of competence?

Why is it good to practice in another room than the regular room you do?

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