Heuristics and Education, complete playlist
During the second half of the twentieth century cognitive psychologists discovered that humans’ thoughts and decisions often deviate from normative
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Simon’s legacies for mathematics educators
Herbert Simon is famous for having said that “The goal of science is to make the wonderful and the complex
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Ecological rationality
Ecological rationality results from the mind adapting to its environment and viceversa.Bounded rationality becomes succesful if it is ecological. Ecological
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Links between Cognitive Psychology and Education
Links between Cognitive Psychology and Education have been particularly strong during the last decades. Indeed, the Enlightenment view of the
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAGIC
Magic has always played tricks with human cognition – by manipulating attention, distorting perceptions, or modifying memories. In this interview,
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Working memory
Dr. Alan Baddeley has been one of the leading researchers in the field of working memory. His model of working
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Language processing, linguistics, non-verbal cues
There are many other issues in language processing that are important – the distribution of attention, eye gaze, gestures, and
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