{"id":"col-psych-summary-self-quiz","audience":"college","category":"studying","technique":"format","title":"Turn a textbook section into a summary and a self-quiz","free":false,"task":"You just read the Intro Psych textbook section on classical conditioning and want to study it actively: a short summary, then questions you answer from memory. Get at most 4 summary lines starting with '-', then exactly 4 numbered questions with no answers, under 120 words, plain text. Every question must be answerable from the summary lines, and it should use only the textbook section plus your professor's correction.","materialLabel":"The textbook section and your professor's note (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"INTRO PSYCH - Textbook section 6.2: Classical Conditioning (pp. 214-217)\n\nIn the early 1900s, Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov was studying digestion in dogs when he noticed they began to drool before food arrived. He realized they had learned to link certain signals with food. This kind of learning is called classical conditioning.\n\nBefore conditioning, food is an unconditioned stimulus (US): it causes drooling, an unconditioned response (UR), without any learning. A neutral stimulus, such as a tone, causes no drooling at first. During acquisition, the tone is played just before the food, again and again. After enough pairings, the tone alone causes drooling. The tone is now a conditioned stimulus (CS), and drooling to the tone is a conditioned response (CR).\n\nIf the tone is then played many times without food, the CR weakens and stops. This is extinction. Extinction erases the learned association permanently. Even after extinction, the CR can suddenly reappear after a rest period, which is called spontaneous recovery.\n\nGeneralization means responding to stimuli similar to the CS, such as a slightly higher tone. Discrimination means learning to respond only to the CS and not to similar stimuli.\n\nComing up in section 6.3: operant conditioning, B. F. Skinner and reinforcement.\n\n---\nProf. Nakamura, lecture Tuesday: \"The book has an error on p. 216. Extinction does NOT erase the association, it suppresses it. That's exactly why spontaneous recovery can happen. This will be on the exam.\"","rules":[{"type":"questionCount","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Just asking for a summary","why":"Rereading a summary feels like studying but isn't. Without questions, you never test what stuck.","fix":"Add: \"Then exactly 4 numbered questions I answer from memory, no answers.\"","checks":["questionCount","r0"]},{"title":"Questions the summary can't answer","why":"The AI writes questions from everything it knows, so you can't check yourself against your own summary.","fix":"Add: \"Every question must be answerable from the summary lines alone.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Trusting the book over your professor","why":"The AI copies the textbook's error unless you tell it about the correction from lecture.","fix":"Add: \"Use my professor's correction: extinction suppresses the association, it doesn't erase it.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"summary lines under 12 words, questions under 10 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Letting the AI format it","why":"AI adds bold headings like **Summary** that clutter a page you want to print and fold.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold or headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Asks for summary then questions","patterns":["summary.{0,60}question","then.{0,20}question"]},{"label":"Says no answers","patterns":["no answers","(don't|do not|without).{0,20}answers?","from memory"]},{"label":"Ties questions to the summary","patterns":["answerable","from the summary","in the summary","summary (lines )?alone"]},{"label":"Uses the correction","patterns":["correction","suppress","professor","not erase"]},{"label":"Limits the length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","under \\d+","at most \\d"]}],"hint":"Reading a summary isn't studying; recalling it is. Ask for a short summary and questions that test it, with no answers, and tell the AI which fact your professor corrected.","rubricLabels":["The summary comes first as at most 4 lines starting with '-', followed by the 4 numbered questions, and no answers are given anywhere","Every question can be answered from the summary lines alone (no question needs a fact the summary leaves out)","Sticks to the section and the professor's correction: no outside facts (nothing about Little Albert, Watson, Skinner or operant conditioning), and if extinction is mentioned it says the association is suppressed, not erased"]}