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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Does a Diagrammatic Representation Help Chemical Bonding?

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.

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