Tackling scientific misconceptions: the element of surprise
- Misconceptions about scientific concepts often prevail even if learners are confronted with conflicting evidence. This study tested the facilitative role of surprise in children’s revision of misconceptions regarding water displacement in a sample of German children (N = 94, aged 6–9 years, 46% female). Surprise was measured via the pupil dilation response. It was induced by letting children generate predictions before presenting them with outcomes that conflicted with their misconception. Compared to a control condition, generating predictions boosted children’s surprise and led to a greater revision of misconceptions (d = 0.56). Surprise further predicted successful belief revision during the learning phase. These results suggest that surprise increases the salience of a cognitive conflict, thereby facilitating the revision of misconceptions.
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| Verfasserangaben: | Maria Theobald, Garvin BrodORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-620042 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13582 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8624 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Child development |
| Verlag: | Blackwell |
| Verlagsort: | Malden, Ma. [u.a.] |
| Dokumentart: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 10.05.2021 |
| Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 10.05.2021 |
| Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 08.09.2021 |
| Jahrgang: | 2021 |
| Ausgabe / Heft: | online version of record before inclusion in an issue |
| Seitenzahl: | 14 |
| Erste Seite: | 1 |
| Letzte Seite: | 14 |
| Bemerkung: | This research was funded by a grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG, BR 5736/2-1) to Garvin Brod. Garvin Brod was supported by a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 489163386 |
| Institute: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Lizenz (Englisch): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0 |
