3 IS INT UIT I ON T HE ENEMY OF

T EAC HI NG A ND LEARNING?

Our own intuitions as Our intuitions can lead Once we land on a

to how we learn and us to pick the wrong learning strategy,
how we should teach learning strategies. we tend to seek out
are not always correct. evidence that favors
the strategy.

College students tend Reading repeatedly When students practice

to read their textbook takes extra time, but retrieving information,
and notes repeatedly as is less effective than they predict poorer
a learning strategy, retrieving information. performance because it
because it feels good. feels hard.

People are more likely The problem with Science acknowledges

to look at confirmatory faulty intuitions and human bias, and
than contradictory biases is that they are constantly tries to
evidence when notoriously difficult to combat it.
examining their beliefs. correct.