Seeing what you believe: recognition memory for evolutionary tree structure is affected by students' misconceptions.

IF 2.2 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Memory Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-28 DOI:10.1080/09658211.2024.2360567
Laura R Novick, Jingyi Liu
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Abstract

Peoples' recognition memory for pictorial stimuli is extremely good. Even complex scientific visualisations are recognised with a high degree of accuracy. The present research examined recognition memory for the branching structure of evolutionary trees. This is an educationally consequential topic due to the potential for contamination from students' misconceptions. The authors created six pairs of scientifically accurate and structurally identical evolutionary trees that differed in whether they included a taxon that cued a misconception in memory. As predicted, Experiment 1 found that (a) college students (N = 90) had better memory for each of the six tree structures when a neutral taxon (M = 0.73) rather than a misconception-cuing taxon (M = 0.64) was included in the tree, and (b) recognition memory was significantly above chance for both sets of trees. Experiment 2 ruled out an alternative hypothesis based on the possibility that 8-12 sec was not enough time for students to encode the relationships depicted in the trees. The authors consider implications of these results for using evolutionary trees to better communicate scientific information. This is important because these trees provide information that is relevant for everyday life.

眼见为实:进化树结构的识别记忆受学生误解的影响。
人们对图像刺激的识别记忆能力极强。即使是复杂的科学直观图也能准确识别。本研究考察了人们对进化树分支结构的识别记忆。这是一个具有教育意义的课题,因为学生的误解可能会造成污染。作者创建了六对科学上准确、结构上相同的进化树,这些进化树的不同之处在于它们是否包含了在记忆中引起误解的分类群。正如预测的那样,实验 1 发现:(a) 当进化树中包含中性分类群(M = 0.73)而非引发误解的分类群(M = 0.64)时,大学生(N = 90)对六种进化树结构中每一种的记忆效果都更好;(b) 两组进化树的识别记忆都明显高于偶然记忆。实验 2 排除了另一种假设,即 8-12 秒的时间不足以让学生对树上描述的关系进行编码。作者考虑了这些结果对利用进化树更好地传播科学信息的影响。这一点非常重要,因为这些树提供的信息与日常生活息息相关。
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Memory
Memory PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
3.50
自引率
9.50%
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79
期刊介绍: Memory publishes high quality papers in all areas of memory research. This includes experimental studies of memory (including laboratory-based research, everyday memory studies, and applied memory research), developmental, educational, neuropsychological, clinical and social research on memory. By representing all significant areas of memory research, the journal cuts across the traditional distinctions of psychological research. Memory therefore provides a unique venue for memory researchers to communicate their findings and ideas both to peers within their own research tradition in the study of memory, and also to the wider range of research communities with direct interest in human memory.
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