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Didis, Nilüfer; Eryilmaz, Ali; Erkoç, Sakir – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
This paper is the first part of a multiphase study examining students' mental models about the quantization of physical observables--light, energy, and angular momentum. Thirty-one second-year physics and physics education college students who were taking a modern physics course participated in the study. The qualitative analysis of data revealed…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Models, Visualization
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Bowers, Jeffrey S. – Psychological Review, 2009
A fundamental claim associated with parallel distributed processing (PDP) theories of cognition is that knowledge is coded in a distributed manner in mind and brain. This approach rejects the claim that knowledge is coded in a localist fashion, with words, objects, and simple concepts (e.g. "dog"), that is, coded with their own dedicated…
Descriptors: Cytology, Brain, Schemata (Cognition), Neurological Organization