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The Neuroscience Of Learning - Dr Michelle Ellefson

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Is There a Desirable Difficult?

i'm going to use something called disfluency. So fluency is being able to do something easily. It's a skill we've learned and we're good at it. Fluency is the opposite of that. And so that's where something might be more challenging. In psychology research, it's usually something that we put in to disrupt fluency. We might make a task more difficult, if you will. Ah, and im moing to show you an example, which, if you've been around psychology much, you might ruddy, which is called the stroop effect. i'm going to ask you to tell me the color of some words. I know you won't

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