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Inhibition and Conceptual Learning in Science: A Review of Studies
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Mason, Lucia; Zaccoletti, Sonia – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Recent research about the learning of science has suggested that misconceptions are not replaced by scientific conceptions and extinguished once conceptual change has occurred. Rather, misconceptions still exist alongside the acquired scientific conceptions and must be suppressed in order to use scientific conceptions. Our goal in this review is…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Learning Processes, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions