Coaching practices for Jam Study Psychology

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • When a study session feels good I walk away assuming I learned everything in it, and when it feels like a slog I assume none of it stuck
  • I’m convinced everyone notices when I’m anxious and is quietly judging me for it
  • I decide what still needs work purely on vibes
  • I cram it all in one long marathon session right before the deadline and walk out feeling sharp and ready
  • Loud rooms, certain textures, bright light have always set me on edge, and I think the sessions might be shifting that

Practices that may help

  1. Global vs. local JOL separation
    Rate individual items separately from your general sense of "how the session went" — they diverge.
    Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
  2. Survey Experiments: Testing Beliefs by Asking Others
    Test social predictions by asking a small sample of others what they actually think — instead of assuming.
    Behavioral Experiments: Testing Beliefs in the Real World
  3. Restudy decision protocol
    Use a defined decision rule — not a feeling — to determine which items get additional study.
    Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
  4. Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
    Judgments of learning (JOLs) are in-the-moment predictions about how well information will be remembered later. Thomas Nelson’s research showed JOLs are often inaccurate — biased upward by current processing fluency — causing learners to declare items "learned" prematurely and under-study material they will later forget. Delayed JOLs and retrieval-based checks produce more accurate predictions and better study-time allocation.
  5. Learning environment design
    Set up your study environment before the session to minimize regulation demands during it.
    Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
  6. Spacing over massing
    Study across multiple sessions separated by time, not in one concentrated block.
    The Fluency Illusion: Why Easy Reading Fools You Into Thinking You’ve Learned
  7. Track and communicate sensory sensitivity changes during SSP
    Monitoring sensory reactivity across sessions gives the clinician the data to pace the protocol safely.
    The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
  8. Delayed judgment of learning
    Wait several minutes after study before rating how well you will remember — early ratings are systematically too high.
    Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
  9. Make It Stick: The Science of Learning
    "Make It Stick", by Peter Brown with psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, distills decades of cognitive science into a few high-leverage practices: retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and elaboration. Its central counterintuitive claim — that the most effective learning feels harder and slower than rereading — is backed by strong experimental evidence.
  10. Running the Experiment and Observing Results
    Do the planned activity, observe what actually happens, and record results immediately.
    Behavioral Experiments: Testing Beliefs in the Real World

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