Psychologyspeaking topic
Interleaving: why does mixing similar topics together teach better than studying them in tidy blocks? Can a little confusion be learning's best friend?
— Rohrer & Taylor, interleaving
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
similar topics
- Self-efficacy, Bandura: our belief that we can pull something off shapes the outcome as much as our actual ability does. Why is the conviction 'I can do this' sometimes more decisive than talent?
- Guilty pleasures, defending the stories we are embarrassed to love, and why desire does not care what our taste says.
- Sherif's norm formation experiment: in an ambiguous situation, people build a shared 'truth' out of each other's guesses. How do groups construct reality?
- After a long journey, the way home somehow feels shorter than the way there, though the distance is identical. Since time isn't actually flowing differently, what shortens the return: familiarity, expectation, or boredom?
- Buridan's ass in relationships: caught between two equally attractive options, we can't decide precisely because neither one beats the other. Why does perfect equality make choosing impossible instead of easy?