How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

Educational Psychology

Author: Benedict Carey

In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives.  From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all….Read More

7 Books Similar to How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Drawing on cognitive psychology and other fields, Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners, and cautions against study habits and practice routines that turn out to be… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Management Science, PMP Exam, Study Skills, Text

Thinking, Fast and Slow

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Judgment, Medical Cognitive Psychology, Reasoning

Think like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast,… Continue Reading Posted in: Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

A previously published edition of this ISBN can be found here.Now updated with new research — the book that has changed millions of lives.After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University… Continue Reading Posted in: Graduate Test Guides, Popular Social Psychology & Interactions, Psychological Aspects, Success Psychological Aspects

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the… Continue Reading Posted in: Physics, Science & Math, Science & Scientists, Science & Scientists Humor

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Change (Psychology), Social Aspects

Leave a Reply