Your cart is currently empty!
Veronica Yan
Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA
Veronica Yan is a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA and USC with a PhD in cognitive psychology from UCLA. Her research focuses on the cognitive underpinnings of memory and the strategies that lead to effective and efficient long-term learning. In particular, she studies “desirable difficulties” in learning, why they work, and the motivational mindsets required to appreciate them. She is a recipient of the UCLA Department of Psychology’s Distinguished Teaching Award and a winner of the UCLA Dissertation Launchpad. Veronica conducts training workshops for students, schoolteachers, and college professors across the United States.
Latest from Veronica Yan
-
If You Think Training Should Make Learning Easy, You Are Doing It Wrong
Certain “desirably difficult” conditions of learning that more actively and effortfully engage learners lead to better long-term learning. In other words, training that makes learning difficult is more effective. Does that seem shocking to you? Find out here why the common wisdom that says you should make eLearning easy is wrong, and to learn what “desirably difficult” entails.