TTC Video – How We Learn (2017) by Professor Monisha Pasupathi, Ph.D.
Description
Learning is a lifelong adventure. It starts in your mother’s womb, accelerates to high speed in infancy and childhood, and continues through Every Age, Whether you are actively engaged in mastering new skills, intuitively discovering a strange place, or just sleeping you are truly born to learn around the clock.
But few of us know how we learn,which is the key to learning and learning more effectively. For example, you might be surprised by the following:
People tend to misjudge what they have learned, what they do not yet know, what they do and do not need practice.
Moments of confusion,frustration,uncertainty and lack of confidence are part of the process of acquiring new skills and knowledge.
Humans and animals explore their world for learning, regardless of the rewards and punishments associated with success.
You can teach old dogs new tricks. In fact, older learners have the benefit of prior knowledge and key skills-two advantages of learning.
Revealing what’s going on as we learn and dispel common myths about the subject, how we learn introduces you to this practical and accessible science in a 24-and-a-half-hour lecture presented by Professor Monisha Pasupathi at the University of Utah, an award-winning psychology teacher and expert on how people of all ages learn.
About your course
Customers of Great Courses who are already committed to lifelong learning may be surprised at how complex the learning process is. We only have one word—learn-but it happens in a variety of fascinating ways, which Professor Pasupathi describes in detail. She describes a series of experiments that can resonate with familiarity when you recognize something about yourself or others:
Scripts: we can’t review specific events until we first learn the scripts for these events. Young children are amazing learners of the script, but so are first-time parents, college freshmen, foreign travelers and new employees.
Variable proportion reinforcement: children complain that candy is usually rejected, but in a few cases, when parents give the maximum display of encouraging behavior. The same principle is behind the success of slot machines and other unpredictable rewards.
Storytelling: storytelling is fundamentally an act of knowing yourself. The way we narrate experiences, usually shortly after events, has a lasting impact on the way we remember those experiences and what we learn from them.
Sleeper effect: have you ever heard of some unreliable source and later found yourself believing it? Over time, we tend to remember the information,but forget the source. Paradoxically, this effect is stronger when the source is not credible.
Many of Dr. Pasupathi’s examples cover the modern history of learning research-from behavioral theories in the early 20th century to recent debates about whether IQ can be separated from achievement, or whether a range of different learning styles and multiple intelligences really exist.
What will you learn
You first examine the 10 myths about learning. These can hinder the full use of extraordinary learning abilities and include broad beliefs, such as that a person with a college education already knows how to learn to the maximum, or that a person must be interested in a subject in order to learn it.
Professor Pasupathi then introduced false learning theories,such as laboratory animals and humans learning in the same way, or the brain is a whiteboard, a blank slate that can absorb information without preparation. Babies seem to be a counter-example that shows that you can learn from scratch. However, you have to check what newborns must know at birth so that they learn so quickly.
Next you’ll delve into how humans master different tasks,from learning a native or second language,to being good at sports or musical instruments, to learning new cities or problem-solving strategies, to mastering the unique mindset needed for math and science. Then you look at the learning process itself,where many factors come into play, including what is being learned and the context, as well as the learner’s emotions, motivations, and goals. You close by considering individual differences. Some people seem to learn effortlessly. How did they do it?
Learning skills
Along the way, professor Pasupathi often offers advice on how to stand out in many different learning situations:
Mastering materials: testing yourself is a very effective strategy for mastering difficult materials. Try taking a blank sheet of paper and writing down everything you can remember about the subject. Then go back and review the material. Next, try another blank sheet.
Second language learning: it’s hard to speak a second language fluently in adulthood because your brain adjusts to your native language and misses important clues to the new language. To overcome this obstacle, allow yourself to sink immerse in the midst of the native language of the new language.
Motivate the child:when trying to motivate elementary school students to learn, avoid controlling the language,create opportunities to give the child a sense of choice, and be careful with excessive praise and other forms of reward, which can actually undermine learning.
Maintain learning advantage: middle-aged and older people can maintain cardiovascular health through exercise, stay mentally active, and regularly try new challenges such as learning to draw or learning new dance steps to maintain learning ability.
Adventure in learning
Dr. Pasupathi is the prestigious teaching award winner of the Psi Chi chapter of her University School of psychology honors, bringing today’s exciting field of learning and research. Her description of the work being done in her field,she is a prominent participant, vivid and insightful, allowing you to devote yourself to a given experiment and ask, ” How would I react in this case?” What does this tell me about my own method of learning?”
By the end of our learning, you will understand the incredible breadth we have learned in our lifetime,understand the commonality and diversity of human learning experiences, and come up with strategies to improve your own learning adventure.
“Learning is a human birthright,” Professor Pasupathi said. “Everything about us is built for lifelong learning-from our unusually long childhood and our large prefrontal cortex to our interest in novelties and challenges.”Because of our almost magical ability to learn, she found a reason to be optimistic about the future of humanity.
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