Power Law Of Learning Case Study

9. Suppose a friend tells you that she thinks that she is psychic because she always has this “feeling” that her professor is going to tell a joke, just before the professor actually does tell a joke. Using the principle of implicit learning, how would you explain to your friend that she is not actually psychic, and that there is a perfectly logical explanation for her “feelings”? (2 points)
• I would say she is not actually psychic because over the time she has spent with her professor she has studied his behavior without her even knowing it. She studied her professor and found that after a certain behavior he will tell a joke. She learned this skill of reading her professors behavior without her conscious effort. And she learned
To practice for short amounts of time instead of cramming it all in at once is more beneficial and is better for long term memory. For example, for an exam I should spend a couple hours a week preparing instead of cramming all the information into one night, because I will retain the information better.

11. Describe the power law of learning, and provide a novel example of how your knowledge of the law could influence your approach to learning in the future (2 points).
• Power Law of Learning: law states that a practice trial improves performance to a certain point and then diminishes, which additional trial re need to help improve a skill- learning happens quickly at first but then slows down
• Ex: An example, would be if I wanted to learn how to salsa dance. When I first start it seems like I am a natural and am picking up on the steps/technique. But as the steps get harder and the dace becomes more complicated my learning slows. I need to keep on practicing I order to get the forma and technique correct. With more practice I become better and better. In the future I can use the law of power that learning slows and if I want to improve the only way is to practice
The text discusses four basic methods of memory failure. Thoroughly describe these four methods, providing a novel example to illustrate each. (4 points)
• Forgetting: Old memories fade away with time or because of recently learned information, passive forgetting. There is something called direct forgetting which refers to when information is forgotten based on a command. That unwanted or unnecessary information is forgotten over time. o Ex: An example, is that I do not remember the phone number of my first phone because it has been years since I used that number and that information is not important to me now because I have a new number.
• Interference: Interference occurs when two memories overlap in content with each other and effects the strength of one or both memories. There are two types of interferences that on can experience, proactive interference and retroactive interference. Proactive interference is old information learnt can affect and disrupt new learning. Retroactive interference new information can disrupt old information. o Ex: For example, you are telling your best friend a juicy gossip story about how one of your cousins got suspended from school for punching a kid in the face. But when telling a story you overlap the stories of your cousin punching a kid and a similar story told on the radio when driving in the car that same