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Zorlu, Yusuf; Zorlu, Fulya – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The aim of this study was investigated of prospective science teachers' understandings on ergastic substances with the semantic mappings. This study was phenomenological research method. 38 prospective science teachers in the science teaching department of a public university participated in the research. The prospective science teachers were…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction
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Skylark, William J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
We regularly compare magnitudes and describe these comparisons to other people. This article reports 9 experiments that examine how messages about the relative magnitude of two items affect inferences about the items' spatial arrangement. Native English speakers were given sentences such as "One tree is taller than the other," and their…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Inferences, Evaluative Thinking, Comparative Analysis
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Notebaert, Wim; Gevers, Wim; Verguts, Tom; Fias, Wim – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
In 4 experiments, the authors investigated the reversal of spatial congruency effects when participants concurrently practiced incompatible mapping rules (J. G. Marble & R. W. Proctor, 2000). The authors observed an effect of an explicit spatially incompatible mapping rule on the way numerical information was associated with spatial responses. The…
Descriptors: Numbers, Scientific Concepts, Experiments, Spatial Ability