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Lucinda Powell – Psychology Teaching Review, 2024
Our school career culminates in a set of exam results, but if students want to do well, attending lessons is not enough: the implicit expectation is that all students will reinforce learning independently outside of the classroom. Really effective learners employ effective independent study techniques, but when, how and where do they learn to do…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Independent Study, Skill Development, Metacognition
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Susanne Vogel; Lars Schwabe – npj Science of Learning, 2016
Exams, tight deadlines and interpersonal conflicts are just a few examples of the many events that may result in high levels of stress in both students and teachers. Research over the past two decades identified stress and the hormones and neurotransmitters released during and after a stressful event as major modulators of human learning and…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Memory, Stress Variables, Psychology
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Wimer, Richard E. – 1972
A battery of behavioral tests yielding 79 measures, many of which were presumably related to learning and memory, was administered to house mice of seven inbred strains. An analysis of the factorial structure indicated that the two principal and most pervasive factors underlying performance on the battery involved the initiation and maintenance of…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns
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Bayles, Kathryn A.; Kim, Esther S. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
Discussion of behavioral interventions in Alzheimer's disease (AD) notes new understanding, including that memory is not a unitary phenomenon, that certain types of memory are relatively spared in AD, and that conceptual knowledge is largely intact. Intervention techniques that capitalize on spared memory systems and take advantage of principles…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Geriatrics