PSY-PC 2600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Functional Fixedness, Carl Bereiter
27 Feb 2019
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Misconceptions - erroneous ideas which constitute serious obstacles to understanding. Sometimes only realize they don"t fully understand when probed. Transfer - the use of knowledge and skills acquired under one set of conditions in alternative conditions. Concepts - webs of ideas linked by shared characteristics, relations, or essential attributes. Occurs in all domains, easier to find in math/science. Accretion - elaboration or enrichment of existing knowledge structures through experience or the acquisition of relevant information simple, subtle, most common - like assimilation. Minor modification to knowledge structures occur that require some shifting or reordering of categories or related attributes. Childrens conceptual framework can change significantly without their need to move into a new stage of mental processing. When the extension or elaboration of knowledge structures no longer suffices and when virtually new concepts arise from existing ones. Accept things as fact, no reason to question or don"t know how to.
