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Mythbusters: Studying in the same place, at the same time, every day is good for learning
Educators often advise students to find a quiet place to study and then only study in that place, but does following that advice actually benefit learning?
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MythBusters: Autism is social aversion
Myth: Autism is characterized by social aversion or social avoidance
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MythBusters: Highlighting helps me study
You have a test this week, so you lay out your set of highlighters, open your textbook (for what may be the first time), and embark on your mission to know every important detail for your test. This is a common experience and everyone seems to think that highlighting ‘key points’ in the text is…
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MythBusters: Big Words Make You Sound Smart!
Somewhere along the way, we all started believing that if we want to come off as intelligent, we need to use big and flowerly language, and use it often. However, psychological research has investigated this assumption, and the results are surprising.
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MythBusters: Learning Styles
Up there with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the ever-popular Learning Styles assessment. Such assessments are meant to measure which “way” we learn information best (e.g. visual, audio, etc.). Results indicate what type of learner you are, but what does empirical research have to say about learning styles?