Automaticity and Cognitive Load in Learning Processes
Automaticity
Why is mastery important in learning?
Knowledge Splat!
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On a blank page (without looking at any of your notes), write down everything you can remember
about the following:
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Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve
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Schema
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Desirable Difficulties
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Effective and ineffective revision strategies
Now compare your knowledge splat with your partner’s:
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What have you both got? What do you both agree on?
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What have you got that is different? Which answer is correct or are they both right
but phrased differently?
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What have you missed that your partner has included?
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What are you both unsure about?
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Is there anything your partner can help you with that you’re unsure on?
Automaticity (n)
: the process of doing something without a lot
of thought or attention.
The prefix ‘auto’ is from the ancient Greek to mean ‘self’ with ‘automatic’ meaning ‘self-acting’ as
in a machine that will imitate human behaviour by acting by itself such as an automatic drill. The
Greek God Hephaestus made self-wheeling tripods to serve food at the feasts of the gods –
automatic tripods!
Automaticity is the ability to do things by habit.
Automaticity is the result of learning, repetition and practice.
Can you think of any tasks you complete automatically without concentrated effort? What benefits
might there be to automaticity?
Automaticity and Cognitive Load
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Many adults drive. When I learned to drive it was so difficult and took a huge amount of effort – I
had to think about the different pedals, the gears and where each one was, indicating, mirrors,
other traffic, junctions, lights, pedestrians…it is overwhelming!
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Once I passed my test, however, I was driving every day and soon drove my route to and from
work automatically.
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Because my cognitive load (all the different things I needed to think hard about) was reduced, I
could listen to the radio, have a conversation, think about my ‘to do’ list.
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With learning, it is important that we don’t just practice until we get it right; we practice until we
cannot get it wrong! For example, if I told you to brush your teeth wrong, you would find that very
hard – doing it right has been mastered and become habit.
How many examples of automaticity can you list?
Take it in turns with your partner to list as many examples of automaticity
you can think of – remember these are tasks you have mastered so well
that you cannot do it wrong. Note down your answers:
The Leitner Method
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The Leitner Method is a great strategy for overlearning and developing automaticity because it involves testing yourself with
flashcards repeatedly until that information is secure.
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Let’s spend the rest of today’s lesson making flashcards on everything we have learned about learning in this curriculum so far
and testing each other in pairs. See below for some possible flashcard questions but feel free to come up with your own!
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What is retrieval?
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Why is retrieval and effective study method?
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List the retrieval strategies we have explored so far and explain how they work.
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What is the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve?
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What is schema?
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What is automaticity and why is it important in learning?
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What is spacing?
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What are desirable difficulties?
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List some ineffective study strategies and explain why they are not effective.
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What does the word revision actually mean?
Explore the concept of automaticity, the process of performing tasks without much conscious thought, and its relationship with cognitive load in learning. Discover how automaticity impacts our knowledge retention and task performance.
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Knowledge Splat! Now compare your knowledge splat with your partner s: What have you both got? What do you both agree on? What have you got that is different? Which answer is correct or are they both right but phrased differently? What have you missed that your partner has included? What are you both unsure about? Is there anything your partner can help you with that you re unsure on?
Automaticity (n): the process of doing something without a lot of thought or attention.
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