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Conceptual change or Conceptual Profile change?

Science & Education, 1995
In this paper I draw an overview of a new model to analyse conceptual evolution in the classroom, based on the notion of Conceptual Profile. This model differs from conceptual change models in suggesting that it is possible to use different ways of thinking in different domains and that a new concept does not necessarily replace previous and ...
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Evidence and conceptual change

Philosophia, 1972
In this paper we shall formulate a rule of evidence that is based on subjective probabilities and is sensitive to conceptual change. Whether a sentence is selected as evidence on our account will be determined by the subjective probability of the sentence and of the sentences with which it competes for evidential status. Both the subjective probability
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Concepts and Conceptual Change

Synthese, 1990
This 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, 1998
This 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, 2010
A 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, 2001
Abstract 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, 2005
Conceptual 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 ...
David Jonassen, Johannes Strobel, Joshua Gottdenker   +2 more
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