From a Psychology textbook I read (and other sources, including here): “Elaborative Rehearsal” is a kind of reviewing that improves retention: instead of just rereading atomic “facts”, it’s more effective to look for meanings and connotations, to ask “why?”, and to see how it fits in the bigger picture. Having a good understanding of principles and relationships makes transfer easier, i.e. it makes it more likely that you’ll be able to use what you learnt in different contexts (i.e. in daily life and not just on LessWrong / when studying psychology).
Anki seems pretty bad at all of those, so something that puts more emphasis on the global structure of knowledge (like a Memory Palace / Method of Loci) may be better.
On the other hand, I mostly remember the above because I put it in Anki and review my decks every day :)
From a Psychology textbook I read (and other sources, including here): “Elaborative Rehearsal” is a kind of reviewing that improves retention: instead of just rereading atomic “facts”
I’m my experience psychology literature does not easily present atomic facts. Finding atomic facts in a article is a process that means that you have to understand what the article is about.
I took a book about learning theory and it told stories about how Aristotle did this and that and how some experiment turned out in a specific way. It names a bunch of facts but I didn’t found anything that looked like an atomic fact in the first two chapters.
From a Psychology textbook I read (and other sources, including here): “Elaborative Rehearsal” is a kind of reviewing that improves retention: instead of just rereading atomic “facts”, it’s more effective to look for meanings and connotations, to ask “why?”, and to see how it fits in the bigger picture. Having a good understanding of principles and relationships makes transfer easier, i.e. it makes it more likely that you’ll be able to use what you learnt in different contexts (i.e. in daily life and not just on LessWrong / when studying psychology).
Anki seems pretty bad at all of those, so something that puts more emphasis on the global structure of knowledge (like a Memory Palace / Method of Loci) may be better.
On the other hand, I mostly remember the above because I put it in Anki and review my decks every day :)
I’m my experience psychology literature does not easily present atomic facts. Finding atomic facts in a article is a process that means that you have to understand what the article is about.
I took a book about learning theory and it told stories about how Aristotle did this and that and how some experiment turned out in a specific way. It names a bunch of facts but I didn’t found anything that looked like an atomic fact in the first two chapters.