Learning blockade

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A learning block is the inability to access a certain potential on a mental and physical level at a certain point in time. Even if you have prepared yourself well, you can no longer access what you have learned.

Symptoms

Learning blocks can be very different from person to person. In some cases, learning blocks show up as reading, writing or arithmetic disorders: One reads without grasping the meaning of what is read, or one invents words while reading. In other cases, one recognizes a learning blockade from concentration disorders, excuses, outbursts of anger, listlessness and listlessness or malaise. However, these symptoms do not necessarily indicate a learning blockade. They can also be the result of school and exam anxiety or bullying .

root cause

Psychological point of view

Common causes of learning blocks are self-doubt, stress and pressure, lack of exercise and competitiveness. But also fear of failure, excessive ambition , limited imagination or incorrect learning behavior can cause learning blocks.

Neuroscientific view

From a neuroscientific point of view, one can differentiate between four causes of learning blocks.

  • Lack of connectivity: A learning block arises when information reaches working memory but not long-term memory . You can avoid this by focusing your attention only on the subject matter and activating your previous knowledge.
  • Lack of usability: Information that is stored in long-term memory “disintegrates” or “fades” there again after a certain period of time. In order to avoid this, one has to make intensive and regular use of what has been learned.
  • Missing contextualization: Missing contextual relationships between old and new information are responsible for the fact that they are stored in long-term memory, but cannot be retrieved again. That happens when you forget the context in which you acquired the knowledge. This occurs above all with detailed knowledge such as formulas, definitions or data that you can no longer remember after a while because you can no longer reconstruct the technical context.
  • Stress: In stressful situations, information can no longer be retrieved from long-term memory. The reason is that in stressful situations, the brain is overwhelmed by stress hormones that affect its performance.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Koneberg, Ludwig, and Gabriele Förder. Kinesiology for children: how to break down learning blocks. Gräfe and Unzer, 2009. pp. 38–40.
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