Sentences with phrase «cognitive psychology tells»

Cognitive psychology tells us that long - term memory is achieved more effectively when new learning assimilates with existing mental schemas.

Research in both educational theory and cognitive psychology tells us that visual learning is among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think and how to learn.

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In Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh - Pasek, scholars of education, psychology, and cognitive science, make a case for a transformation of education that aligns neatly with Gopnik's thesis.

In one study of this effect, people rated cancer as riskier when told that it «kills 1286 people out of 10,000» than when told it «kills 24.14 people out of 100», even though the second statement equates to almost double the risk (Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol 11, p 495).

Stephan Lewandowsky, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol, told the World Conference on Research Integrity that «open data is highly political» and that there is a danger that some people will use scholarly information as «noise, nonsense, commercial interests or political propaganda», to further their own interests.