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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

ANECDOTE

Visual Explanations Improve Understanding

  • In a study on junior high students learning chemical bonding, one group gave verbal explanations while another gave visual ones.
  • Both groups improved on a retest, but the visual group significantly outperformed the verbal group.
  • This superior performance extended to both structural and functional aspects of chemical bonding, exceeding expectations.
  • Creating explanations, especially visual ones, helps consolidate and make sense of information, leading to better understanding.
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