Please, can you explain “Be effortful”?
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This is what Andy says:
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Have you found this to be true in your own practice? How so?
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Yes, I see it like a bodybuilder lifting weights - you need the resistance. So exerting a bit of effort to retrieve something from your fading memory at just the right time is most effective.
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Great illustration!
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The main motivation here, from a cognitive perspective, is that you’re trying to stimulate the encoding benefits of retrieval practice (i.e. relative to merely restudying). If a prompt “gives the answer away,” it amounts to restudying; the goal is to induce retrieval.