By Jeri Bradford
Being honest about college…. studying often feels like continuous highlighting of textbooks, thousands of lecture slides that all start to look the same, and magically hoping some of the needed information will be understood for the next day’s exam. The good news is that cognitive psychology has an amazing trick up its sleeve that can help you out and it’s something called the generation effect. By understanding the generation effect, it could make the difference between truly remembering the material long term and just memorizing the material for a test. At this level of study, you will be expected to learn new material and apply it to new learning so it’s important not just to memorize.
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