THE ROLE OF ATTENTION IN STUDYING AND LEARNING

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the role of attention in studying and learning. The traditional approaches for investigating study skills have not been totally successful may be because study skills researchers have concentrated on the form of studying—assigning a strategy and looking at learning outcomes from a group that used the strategy and from a group that did not, instead of on the substance of studying. The underlying processes students go through while studying have not been thoroughly investigated. These underlying processes are as important as traditional study skills themselves, if not more so. Techniques such as note taking, underlining, summarizing, outlining, and graphically relating concepts are attempts to integrate and understand information that apply only after processes such as identifying important information, attention allocation, and comprehension monitoring have been engaged.

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