Can SuperMemo reduce comprehension?
(Ricardo Gonzalez, Jul 21, 2010, 01:56:25) Question: I would like to ask you about something that has worried me since I learned about supermemo. If one starts using supermemo and storing information on long term memory, is it possible to lose some of the ability to comprehend? In other words, is there a tradeoff between remember information and comprehension? If you become better at remembering information, will you become worse off at comprehending? I was raised with the belief that I should try to memorize as little as possible, and comprehend most if not all the time except for math tables obviously Answer: You should rephrase your comprehension rule from “memorize as little as possible” to “memorize as little as necessary”. It is a well known fact that if you understand you learning material well, you will expend less energy on learning it. If you do not know Chinese, it is very hard to memorize a poem in Chinese. The same poem in English may be learned in no time. The reason is t
