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By John K. Gilbert, Miriam Reiner, Mary Nakhleh
Exterior representations (pictures, diagrams, graphs, concrete versions) have consistently been worthy instruments for the technology instructor. This booklet brings jointly the insights of practising scientists, technological know-how schooling researchers, computing device experts, and cognitive scientists, to provide a coherent evaluation. It hyperlinks shows approximately cognitive concept, its implications for technology curriculum layout, and for studying and educating in school rooms and laboratories.
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Rapp, C. A. Kurby copy’ of the skyline accessed from memory. Some representations can be quite detailed and convey meaning in a very direct way, as exemplified by the intricate renderings of an architectural blueprint or the delicate brushstrokes of a painting. Other representations can be more abstract, and interpretations of such work must be derived in ways that rely less on surface characteristics. , views and beliefs) associated with the flags of a nation, or the geometric shapes that, taken together, convey emotion in cubist artwork.
The amodal view of mental representations likens knowledge to a set of nodes in memory. These nodes hold information in some abstract form, composed of arbitrary symbols (which we will refer to as amodal symbols) that are not related in any systematic way to our real-world experiences of them (Anderson & Lebiere, 1998; Graesser & Clark, 1985; Newell & Simon, 1972; Pylyshyn, 1981; Van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983). An appropriate analogy might be to think about the way 2 The ‘Ins’ and ‘Outs’ of Learning 37 most words are related to their underlying concepts.
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