Motor skills, 40; beanbag study
New Yorker, 220
of, 46, 51, 86, 263n1;
New York Times, 29, 109, 169
feedback on, 40, 261n12; in
Nisbett, Richard, 173, 178,
habit formation, 171– 172;
280n12
interleaved practice of, 65,
Nutrition, and intelligence
80, 206; massed practice of,
quotient, 174– 175
Index ê 307
Open- book testing, 40,
Police training: refl ection in,
261– 262n13
222; simulations on fi rearm
Orfalea, Paul, 140
use in, 128– 130
Osmosis social- learning
Polk, James, 165, 167
platform, 240
Practical intelligence, 148, 150
Practice like you play. See
Painting style of artists, inter-
Simulation training
leaved and massed practice in
Praise, and response to chal-
identifi cation of, 53– 54, 84,
lenges, 181– 182
265n7
Priming the mind for learning,
Paivio, Allan, 281– 282n21
86. See also Generation effect Pashler, Harold, 145, 146
Prior knowledge as foundation
Paterson, James, 163– 164,
for new learning, 5, 100
166, 193– 197, 282– 283n24
Problem solving, 4, 278n14;
Peer instruction, 125– 126; in
