Making Things Hard on Yourself, but in a Good Way

Bjork, E. L., & Bjork, R. A. (2011). Making Things Hard on Yourself, but in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning. Psychology and the Real World.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2011

Link

https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/Making-Things-Hard-on-Yourself-but-in-a-Good-Way-20111.pdf

Cited from

music_musicology

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Dissonance
  • High magnitude with low cost makes the dissonance a feature rather than a bug — modernist music, intentional ugliness, deliberate provocation.

Mechanisms

• Delayed Retention, Transfer, and Interference Battery
  • The discipline is spaced delays, far-transfer and load-stressed probes, active search for the returning pattern,
• Mixed Problem Set
  • The productive difficulty it creates is a textbook case of a desirable difficulty, a manipulation that slows practice yet improves durable, transferable performance.

    This sourceIdentifies interleaved practice as a desirable difficulty that can slow apparent acquisition while improving long-term retention and transfer.

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