Archive for June, 2009

Learning is State Dependent

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Which means that in order to best recall information, you need to be in same state as when you learnt it.

An ex-Met Police Training sergeant once told me how he was given a remedial class to bring up to speed.

He decided to use anchors so instructed students when studying to have with them a tissue with a few drops of peppermint oil on it. (more…)