How Does a Diagrammatic Representation Help Chemical Bonding?

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A study with Eliza Bobic looked at junior high students learning chemical bonding. Half the students were asked to give a verbal explanation of chemical bonding, which is the normal way of testing. And then everybody was retested. What's interesting is that everybody does better on the second test, even though they're not learning new material. The fact that they have to create an explanation helps consolidate and make sense of the information in their own minds.

My guest today is acclaimed psychologist and longtime Stanford University professor Barbara Tversky who calls on her nearly 50 years in the field of cognitive psychology for an in-depth discussion about how our minds work.

We discuss the Nine Laws of Cognition, why action shapes thought, how the language we use changes what we think, tactics to communicate better on Zoom, why she dove into the work of Leonardo da Vinci, when to use charts and when to avoid them, the importance of perspective taking, learned knowledge vs. earned knowledge, and so much more.

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