{"pk":26476,"title":"When does passive learning improve the effectiveness of active learning?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Much of what we learn comes from a mix of information thatwe select (active) and information that we receive (passive).But which type of training is better for different kinds of learn-ing problems? Here, we explore this question by comparingdifferent sequences of active/passive training in an abstractconcept learning task. First, we replicate the active learningadvantage from Markant & Gureckis (2014) (Experiments 1aand 1b). Then, we provide a test of whether experiencing ac-tive learning first or passive learning first improves the effec-tiveness of concept learning (Experiment 2). Across both ex-periments, active training led to better learning of the targetconcept, but “passive-first” learners were more accurate than“active-first” learners and more efficient than “active-only”learners. These findings broaden our understanding of whendifferent sequences of active/passive learning are more effec-tive, suggesting that for certain problems active explorationcan be enhanced with prior passive experience.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"active learning"},{"word":"concept learning"},{"word":"replication"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vc91183","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kyle","middle_name":"","last_name":"MacDonald","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Frank","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26476/galley/16112/download/"}]}