PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mental Model, Electrical Network, Confirmation Bias
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How do people learn a scientific concept: understand that it"s often a cause and effect pattern, create a mental model. Instruction: scientific information vs scientific reasoning: assessment: knowing science facts vs understanding science systems; description vs explanation. Conceptual change: replacing your current conception or mental model with a new one that better explains the evidence: ex: changing from impetus theory to newtonian theory for explaining the laws of motion. Student with impetus theory: the momentum that is acquired as it went around here. [through the tube], well, the force holding it has given it angular momentum, so as it comes around here [out the tube], it still has some momentum left, but it loses the momentum as the force disappears. Student with newtonian theory: the ball will continue to move in a line away from here [end of tube]. It will keep going until some force acts on the ball.
