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Concepts and Conceptual Change
Synthese, 1990This paper argues that questions concerning the nature of concepts that are central in cognitive psychology are also important to epistemology and that there is more to conceptual change than mere belief revision. Understanding of epistemic change requires appreciation of the complex ways in which concepts are structured and organized and of how this ...
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What changes in conceptual change?
International Journal of Science Education, 1998This paper has two aims. First, it reviews literature about conceptual change and about the study of concepts more broadly. The principal claim is that much prior work has suffered from inexplicitness and imprecision in terms of what constitutes a concept. Second, we introduce a theory of one particular type of concept.
Andrea A. diSessa, Bruce L. Sherin
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Conceptual Organisation and Weight Change
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2010A form of repertory grid was used to study changes in attitudes to the self and others in the personal environment of two obese women during weight change. During weight loss, view of the self polarized from being evaluatively ‘bad’ to being close to the ideal. With weight gain the view of self reverted to being ‘bad’.
F, Fransella, A H, Crisp
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Theory of Mind and Conceptual Change
Child Development, 2001Abstract We agree with the commentaries by Scholl and Leslie, and also by Moses, that the meta-analytic findings do not definitively rule out early competence accounts. But they do make extant versions of such accounts increasingly unlikely. In particular, the meta-analytic findings argue against executive function expression accounts,
H M, Wellman, D, Cross
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Model building for conceptual change
Interactive Learning Environments, 2005Conceptual change is a popular, contemporary conception of meaningful learning. Conceptual change describes changes in conceptual frameworks (mental models or personal theories) that learners construct to comprehend phenomena. Different theories of conceptual change describe the reorganization of conceptual frameworks that results from different forms ...
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A Conceptual Framework for Job Change
Journal of Career Development, 1990Change related to the job is identified as an exigent issue in the field of career development. This paper presents an effort to conceptualize a job change framework. The intent is increase awareness, generate discussion, and stimulate empirical research in this area.
Teri A. Loughead, David R. Black
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Conceptual Change and Paradigm Change
Theory & Psychology, 2007Paradigm change is a special type of conceptual change, but what makes it special? A useful strategy for analysing conceptual changes is to identify and then contrast the respective sets of judgement criteria in play before and after the change. Several types of conceptual change can thus be structurally distinguished within moral, aesthetic as well as
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2020
Individuals of all ages have misconceptions about phenomena of the natural and physical world. They may think, for example, that summer is hotter because the Earth is closer to the Sun, and it is colder in winter because the Earth is farther away from the Sun.
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Individuals of all ages have misconceptions about phenomena of the natural and physical world. They may think, for example, that summer is hotter because the Earth is closer to the Sun, and it is colder in winter because the Earth is farther away from the Sun.
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Conceptual Metaphor Meets Conceptual Change
Human Development, 2009This paper argues that the metaphorical representation of concepts and the appropriation of language-based construals can be hypothesized as additional sources of conceptual change alongside those previously proposed. Analyses of construals implicit in the lay and scientific use of the noun <i>energy</i> from the perspective of the theory ...
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