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Citation Context ... own conceptualizations about the biological and physical world, using theirsobservations, experiences, and background knowledge. These conceptions often deviate substantiallysfrom scientific models (=-=Carey, 1985-=-; Chi, Slotta, and de Leeuw, 1994b; diSessa, 2006, Duschl,sSchweingruber, and Shouse, 2007; Vosniadou and Brewer, 1992). Although most children and adultssin the United States are taught biological mo... |
301 | Mental models. - Gentner, Stevens - 2014 |
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Mental models of the earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood.
- Vosniadou, Brewer
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Citation Context ... and background knowledge. These conceptions often deviate substantiallysfrom scientific models (Carey, 1985; Chi, Slotta, and de Leeuw, 1994b; diSessa, 2006, Duschl,sSchweingruber, and Shouse, 2007; =-=Vosniadou and Brewer, 1992-=-). Although most children and adultssin the United States are taught biological models of illness, involving germs and viruses as the causes(Lakshmi and Gelman, 2004; Sigelman, 2012), belief formation... |
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Report. UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic
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Citation Context ...). In the United States alone, estimates indicate that moresthan a million people are infected with HIV, with one in five unaware of their condition (Centerssfor Disease Control and Prevention, 2008; =-=UNAIDS, 2010-=-). Genital human papillomavirus (HPV)sinfection, now the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States, has an overallsprevalence rate of over 25% in both men and women, with an estima... |
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The mind’s arrows: Bayes nets and graphical causal models in psychology
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Citation Context ...opics are organized cognitively. When a causal description was common to at least three participants,sit was represented as a diagram. Following conventions within the psychological literature (e.g.,s=-=Glymour, 2001-=-), entities in the causal diagrams were represented as boxes, and relations weresrepresented as directed arrows (note that different kinds of relations are represented, includingscausal and spatial re... |
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Why are Rocks Pointy?: Children’s Preference for Teleological Explanations of the Natural World.
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Citation Context ...velopment finds that childrensdraw on their knowledge of humans to reason about other biological entities, often explainingsbehavior in terms of intentionality (Carey, 1985; Hatano and Inagaki, 1997; =-=Kelemen, 1999-=-). Wesfind evidence of intention-based thinking in our study; for example, one student stated that ansimmune cell “feels [the virus] and it’s like, ‘oh, that’s foreign,’ and it tries to kill it.” Inte... |
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Mental models in conceptual development. In:
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Citation Context ...t scientific information may be ineffective. This approach is unlikely to lead people tosabandon their naïve models (Au and Romo, 1996; Chi et al., 1994b; Chinn and Brewer, 1993;sSinger et al., 2012; =-=Vosniadou, 2002-=-). For example, telling a student that a virus needs a host tossurvive may not change their belief that viruses reproduce through cell division. The student couldsinterpret the statement by thinking t... |
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Qualitative changes in intuitive biology.
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Citation Context ... Research on conceptual development finds that childrensdraw on their knowledge of humans to reason about other biological entities, often explainingsbehavior in terms of intentionality (Carey, 1985; =-=Hatano and Inagaki, 1997-=-; Kelemen, 1999). Wesfind evidence of intention-based thinking in our study; for example, one student stated that ansimmune cell “feels [the virus] and it’s like, ‘oh, that’s foreign,’ and it tries to... |
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A cross-cultural developmental analysis of children’s and adults’ understanding of illness in South Asia (India) and the United States.
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Citation Context ...Schweingruber, and Shouse, 2007; Vosniadou and Brewer, 1992). Although most children and adultssin the United States are taught biological models of illness, involving germs and viruses as the causes(=-=Lakshmi and Gelman, 2004-=-; Sigelman, 2012), belief formation is also influenced by cultural andsdevelopmental factors that provide moral, mystical, or common sense explanations for illnesss(Hejmadi, Rozin, and Siegal, 2004; L... |
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Explanatory analogies can help children acquire information from expository text (Tech
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Citation Context ...sbehaviors are invisible to the naked eye. A potentially powerful way to introduce a scientific framework in such cases is through analogy (Gentner, 1989; Jee et al., 2010; Markman and Gentner,s2000; =-=Vosniadou and Schommer, 1988-=-). Vosniadou and Schommer (1988), for example, found thatsyoung children (around ages 6 and 8) had better retention and understanding of an expository textsabout the immune system’s response to infect... |
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Doctors demand the removal of anti-vaccine ad from Times Square
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Citation Context ...nt billboard in Times Square,sNew York displayed a picture of a mother cradling her infant along with the message: “Vaccines:sKnow the risks” and “Vaccination. Your Health. Your Family. Your Choice” (=-=Platts, 2011-=-). Whilesscientific progress in the management of viral diseases has been substantial, its impact depends onsachieving a scientifically informed public capable of rejecting such anti-science propagand... |
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