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If you want to remember something, will you remember it better (a) if you simply read about it or (b) if you think about it actively and in different ways and connect it to other things you already know?
We all know that thinking actively about something promotes recall and understanding. Thinking actively about an idea will usually embed it deeper into the propositional network of our memory than will thinking passively about the same idea; this will lead to better recall later on.
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Baer, J., Kaufman, J.C. (2012). Can Teaching For Creativity and Teaching For Content Knowledge Mix?. In: Baer, J., Kaufman, J.C. (eds) Being Creative Inside and Outside the Classroom. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness, vol 2. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-840-7_6
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