Scientific knowledge suppresses but does not supplant earlier intuitions

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-215

  Shtulman, Andrew ^a   Valcarcel, Joshua ^a  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Knowledge representation; Naive theories; Science education

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE; MECHANICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERMODYNAMICS; WAVEFORM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; SCIENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862659391     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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