Dr. Alan Castel

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1,246 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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But then when you quiz people and test them, and I do this in my class, people aren't sure, is the bite on the left or the right-hand side?

Is there a stem or a leaf?

But if you make people draw it while they're looking at it, they're going to remember it better.

While they're looking at the actual- While they're looking at it, or if they actually, the best way to remember something is to, again, failures.

I'll have you draw it.

without looking at it, and you struggle, and you wait, is it on the left or right?

Is it a stem or a leaf?

And you're starting to question all of these things.

Then when you look at the logo again, you're going to engage in better learning than if you hadn't done that errorful kind of trial beforehand.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So this sort of thing is, you know, in an academic setting, we don't want failure.

We want people to do well.

But I think

This sort of retrieval failure with some, you know, corrective feedback is really beneficial.

And that's kind of how you learn through life.

You know, you make mistakes and then you correct them.

But if you're constantly just doing it the right way, you're not really noticing these features.

And we've tried to extend this to other domains.

Like, you know, it's called habituation.

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