Articles About learning
Conscientiousness: The Personality Trait That Predicts Grades as Well as IQ
Conscientiousness tracks grades about equally from primary school to university while IQ's lead shrinks. Here is where the claim holds and where it fails.
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23 Oct
ADHD and Study Strategies: What Works When Attention Will Not Hold
Attention that slips is several problems, not one. This is what each looks like at the desk, and which study methods held up when researchers tested them.
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2 Oct
Latent Learning: The Rats That Learned a Maze Without Any Reward
The man who ran the first experiment and named the effect was not Tolman. There were four groups, not three. And the finding never did break behaviourism.
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23 Aug
Variable Reward Schedules: Unpredictable Payoffs Are the Hardest Habit to Break
Every explainer tells you unpredictable rewards are stickier. None says why, because psychology has argued about that since 1939 and has not stopped.
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23 Aug
Addiction: When the Learning System That Builds Habits Turns Against You
Addiction is not a broken pleasure system. It is a broken learning system, and the difference explains why people keep using things they no longer enjoy.
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13 Aug
Dopamine and Learning: The Molecule That Teaches Your Brain
How dopamine and learning are connected through reward signals, memory circuits, and motivation, told through the discoveries that rewrote neuroscience.
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30 Apr