Science and Technology Production
Congress
Authorship
VERONICA D'ANGELO
;
TRENCH, JUAN MAXIMO
Date
2022
Publishing House and Editing Place
Cognitive Science Society
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The external provision of examples has proventhe most successful approach to aid learningand application of declarative concepts (i.e., abstract concepts denotedby key terms and short definitions that can be applied to a wide variety ofscenarios). The current experiment sought to further this line of research byexploring the effect of using thematically varied examples on learners' abilityto classify novel exemplars and near misses of five system principlesthat cut across thematic domains....
The external provision of examples has proventhe most successful approach to aid learningand application of declarative concepts (i.e., abstract concepts denotedby key terms and short definitions that can be applied to a wide variety ofscenarios). The current experiment sought to further this line of research byexploring the effect of using thematically varied examples on learners' abilityto classify novel exemplars and near misses of five system principlesthat cut across thematic domains. Results revealed that thematic variationincreased learners’ ability to rejectnear-misses and, more crucially, to classify novel exemplars fromdomains not covered by the studied examples. The fact that this enhancedflexibility was unaccompanied by poorer performance in rejecting near misses orclassifying new items from domains covered by the learned examples renders thisstrategy readily applicable in instructional settings. We end by discussingpossible mechanisms that could potentially explainthe observed advantage of thematically varied examples
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Key Words
ANALOGYSYSTEM PRINCIPLESEXAMPLESTHEMATIC VARIATIONLEARNING