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Practical tips to help you learn quickly, remember what you learn, and apply it to real-world performance. Whether you’re training to play the piano, speak a foreign language, shoot a target with a bow and arrow, or master the techniques of fine carpentry, the conditions of your training will affect how successfully you learn and perform. How can you process needed new information in order to remember it better and use it in the future? How long should you work, study, or practice before taking a break? How can you counteract fatigue and boredom to improve performance if the task is tedious? This book shares practical tips to help you learn quickly, remember what you learn, and apply it to real-world performance. Exercises in the form of mini-experiments are provided so that readers can see first-hand why some learning conditions are better than others. Whether you're training to play the piano, speak a foreign language, shoot a target, or master the techniques of fine carpentry, the conditions of your training will affect how successfully you learn and perform. How can you process new information to remember it better and use it in the future? How long should you work, study, or practice before taking a break? Is it desirable or even possible to "overlearn"? How can you counteract fatigue and boredom to improve performance if the task is tedious? Cognitive psychologists Lyle E. Bourne and Alice F. Healy have studied these and other questions to determine the best training conditions for learning and performance. Readers will learn how best to acquire, retain, and transfer knowledge and skills to new situations, and through exercises in the form of miniexperiments, they will see firsthand why some learning conditions are better than others. APA LifeTools is an imprint of the American Psychological Association, the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and the largest association of psychologists worldwide. http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/lifetools Book jacket Whether you're training to play the piano, speak a foreign language, shoot a target with a bow and arrow, or master the techniques of fine carpentry, the conditions of your training will affect how successfully you learn and perform. * How can you process new information in order to remember it better and use it in the future? * How long should you work, study, or practice before taking a break? * Is it desirable or even possible to "overlearn"? * How can you counteract fatigue and boredom to improve performance if the task is tedious? Cognitive psychologists Lyle Bourne and Alice Healy have studied these and other questions for decades to determine the best training conditions for learning and job performance. Readers will learn how best to acquire, retain, and transfer knowledge and skills to new situations. Not only are the basics of effective training principles explained, but exercises in the form of mini-experiments are provided so that readers can see first-hand why some learning conditions are better than others. Regardless of what subject or skill you're learning, you can maximize your training for higher levels of performance. This book tells you how. Whether you re training to play the piano, speak a foreign language, shoot a target with a bow and arrow, or master the techniques of fine carpentry, the conditions of your training will affect how successfully you learn and perform. How can you process needed new information in order to remember it better and use it in the future? How long should you work, study, or practice before taking a break? How can you counteract fatigue and boredom to improve performance if the task is tedious? This book shares practical tips to help you learn quickly, remember what you learn, and apply it to real-world performance. Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 What ’s This Book All About? Chapter 2 How to Learn Quickly: Increasing the Efficiency of Training Chapter 3 How to Retain What You Learn: Increasing the Durability of Training Chapter 4 How to Apply What You Learn to New Situations: Increasing the Generalizability of Training Chapter 5 Refreshing Your Skills, Aging, and Debunking Myths About Training Recommended Additional Reading Bibliography Index About the Authors