Create a detailed and thorough study plan for a course.

Create a detailed and thorough study plan for a course. It can be this course, or one you’re taking next semester if you have the syllabus already.

For each step you will take to enhance your learning, describe in 2-3 sentences how this strategy will help you based on what you’ve learned about

Perception

Object recognition

Attention

Memory acquisition and working memory

Types of memory

Memory for complex events

Visual knowledge

Problem solving and creativity

Metacognition and Metamemory

You don’t need to include all of these, and can include more than one strategy per topic- whatever is most relevant to your study plan.

For each point in your plan, you must also provide at least one empirical article to support the use of this strategy to enhance your learning. It should not be one of the articles assigned from the course (either for presentations or for the module itself). Articles should be cited in APA format under the relevant point of your plan that it supports.

Example:

I will eliminate multiple sources of information that come from the same modality while studying (e.g. turn off TV while listening to lectures) because

We have limited attentional resources

Between-task interference increases as task similarity increases (both the example tasks are audio/verbal) so these draw on the same specific resources

Even if concurrent tasks are different, they still draw on the total capacity of general resources

Bourke, P. A. (1996). A general factor involved in dual task performance decrement. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Section A, 49(3), 525-545.

Found that interference is related to the amount of cognitive processes involved (more cognitive demand = more interference), regardless of specific modality or type of interference.

You should include at least 8 steps and strategies you will take. Think in terms of maximizing perception and attention, creating multiple retrieval paths, promoting encoding, approaches to testing, visualizing concepts, limiting memory/metamemory errors, etc.

Total number of points earned will be based on the thoroughness and specificity of your plan, how you are applying it to different tasks (QALMRI, studying for exams, giving presentations, completing lecture quizzes, etc.), and most importantly, how well you tie it into the course content you’ve learned.