Tham khảo tài liệu 'learning by doing 4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CHAPTER 7 What makes you say Now I get it or I see what you mean You have learned something whether it s parallel parking a car or understanding terms in a psychology class when you know that you know it. Knowing What You Know Knowing something and knowing that you know something are two different things. You may know things you don t know you know odd little facts lying around in your head like Ted Williams batting average or the phone number of your childhood home. On the other hand you can think you know something that you don t really know like the contents of that chapter you read or lecture you heard but didn t think about afterwards. To study effectively you have to realize what you don t really know. It is then that you will develop an awareness of your knowledge and learning processes. 51 HOW TO STUDY It is not easy to develop awareness. You must bring up to the level of consciousness things you ve more or less taken for granted things you ve let lie low. Awareness is like a cog in the machinery of the brain because it helps you move and connect other information. Another word for awareness is cognition. Cognition is knowing when you know something. What Is Awareness Shirley read the assigned lesson on thinking for her psychology class. She felt she knew the material she studied. Yet in class when the instructor started talking about cognition she felt lost. She looked at Charlene sitting next to her and whispered I don t remember reading about that It s here on page 27 Charlene answered showing Shirley the textbook. Shirley asked Charlene after class How could I think I understood something when I didn t Charlene laughed That s just what the lesson was about needing awareness so you know when you know and know when you don t. Shirley shook her head I felt really involved reading about the experiments with the monkey in the beginning of the lesson. I guess I just skimmed over the rest of the reading so I thought the whole lesson was on the monkey. It s .
