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Direct linkThomas D. Griffin; Allison J. Jaeger; M. Anne Britt; Jennifer Wiley – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Relying on multiple documents to answer questions is becoming common for both academic and personal inquiry tasks. These tasks often require students to explain phenomena by taking various causal factors that are mentioned separately in different documents and integrating them into a coherent multi-causal explanation of some phenomena. However,…
Descriptors: Documentation, Inquiry, Grade 8, Scientific Concepts
Henne, Paul; O'Neill, Kevin – Cognitive Science, 2022
Mike accidentally knocked against a bottle. Seeing that the bottle was about to fall, Jack was just about to catch it when Peter accidentally knocked against him, making Jack unable to catch it. Jack did not grab the bottle, and it fell to the ground and spilled. In double-prevention cases like these, philosophers and nonphilosophers alike tend to…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Prevention, Logical Thinking, Individual Differences
Jamie Amemiya; Gail D. Heyman; Caren M. Walker – Cognitive Science, 2024
How do people come to opposite causal judgments about societal problems, such as whether a public health policy reduced COVID-19 cases? The current research tests an understudied cognitive mechanism in which people may agree about what "actually" happened (e.g., that a public health policy was implemented and COVID-19 cases declined),…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Evaluative Thinking, Logical Thinking, Social Problems
