Get It Wrong Before You Google

A new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition suggests that we learn better when we get things wrong before getting them right:

People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning.

You can read more about the study here.