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6. How many times should you read a text?

  • 2
  • 3
  • 1
  • As many as possible

7. How is the utility of learning techniques determined?

  • How good they are at helping us learn
  • Time efficiency and effectiveness
  • Studies and experiments
  • Applicability to real life

8. Interleaved practice:

  • studying many different kinds of items and problems at the same time
  • alternate practice of different kinds of items or problems
  • all content from one subtopic is studied before moving on to the next
  • practice is divided into different sessions with lags between them

9. Which is preferable, spaced reading/practice or mass reading/practice?

  • Neither
  • Mass
  • Spaced
  • Both

10. How many times will you still learn if you test yourself on the same thing?

  • 5-7
  • 10
  • 2
  • 4-8

11. Deficient processing:

  • if the second learning session is too close, it's the same as mass practicing
  • deficient attention causes problems processing information
  • if the second learning session is too close, you won’t need to work as hard to retrieve the information, which makes it less effective
  • if the second learning session is too late, you will need to work harder to retrieve the information, which makes it less effective

12. What is required for elaborative interrogation to be effective?

  • Prior knowledge
  • Repetition
  • Lots of time
  • A study partner