{"pk":25959,"title":"The role of text in scientific reasoning: Priming misconceptions can facilitate\nlearning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We examined the role of text in learning to replace science misconceptions. Undergraduates’ beliefs about where a\ncoin falls when dropped by someone walking were assessed. A common misconception is that a coin will fall straight down,\nbut its forward motion actually continues before it hits the ground. 135 students who expressed this misconception read one of\nthree passages about the issue. The passages differed in whether the misconception was explicitly stated, only implied, or not\nmentioned at all. Past research shows that calling a misconception to the foreground helps people overcome the misconception\n(Broughton & Sinatra, 2010). We found a significant difference across conditions, with 86% of those who saw the explicit\nmisconception, 72% of those who saw the implicit reference to the misconception, and 59% of those who saw no reference to\nthe misconception correcting their mistake (2(2, N = 135) = 8.22, p = .016).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sg8w44b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Masnick","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hofstra University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kristin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Weingartner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Hofstra University","department":""},{"first_name":"Marisa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cohen","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. Francis College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25959/galley/15583/download/"}]}