Finding faults: Analogical comparison supports spatial concept learning in geoscience

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-187

  Jee, Benjamin D ^a   Uttal, David H ^b   Gentner, Dedre ^b   Manduca, Cathy ^c   Shipley, Thomas F ^d   Sageman, Bradley ^b  

^a Center for Interdisciplinary Studies   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Conceptual representation; Science learning; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAULT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL LEARNING; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EARTH SCIENCES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; THINKING; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84882623342     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-013-0551-7     Document Type: Article

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