ABSTRACT
Domain-general strategies refer to those strategies that one can use to be successful in any domain. These strategies can be used across many different learning and study situations. Now that learning and studying have been explicitly defined, a more comprehensive examination of domain-general learning and study strategies is in order, including how these domain-specific strategies might develop over time. Domain-general strategies have been categorized into six different categories for the purpose of this exploration: attentional strategies, organizational strategies, elaborative strategies, working memory strategies, generative strategies, and help-seeking strategies. Elaborative strategies include mnemonics, method of loci, self-questioning, and self-explanation. Once information has been attended to, organized, or elaborated, there are various domain-general strategies that individuals can employ to keep that information in working memory. Help seeking is the strategy of identifying and using environmental resources such as technological or social assistance to improve learning or task performance.
