Changing your mind is hard!: WEGSBA 5
Channel: Andy on Games
Date: 10/08/2016

The beginning of the end! It's time to start talking about concept change and why it's so hard to get people to really change how they thing about things. 


References:

Piaget, J. The development of thought: Equilibration of cognitive structure.s. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1977.

Carey, S. (1985). Conceptual change in childhood. Cambridge, MA:MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/conceptual-change-childhood

Vosniadou, S., and Brewer, W. E (1987). Theories of knowledge restructuring in development. Review of Educational Research, 57,5 1-67

Vosniadou, S. (1994). Capturing and modelling the process of conceptual change. Learning and Instruction, 4, 45–69

Kuhn, T.S.(1962) The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago Press
 https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3eP5Y_OOuzwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=structure+of+scientific+revolutions&ots=xU1RG5gQuP&sig=Zt85Jqfw8VFoCALxrf3BJZrEkvM#v=onepage&q=structure%20of%20scientific%20revolutions&f=false

Wiser, M., & Carey, S. (1983). When heat and temperature were one. In D. Gentner & A. Stevens (Eds.), Mental models (pp. 267-298), Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Accociates, Inc. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=G8iYAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA267&dq=carey+wiser+1983&ots=aLtT_QzGgv&sig=-o8rg0l5FuiT4oDtFhDCfpJLT1w#v=onepage&q&f=false

Kozhenikov, M., & Hegarty, M. (2001) Impetus beliefs as default heuristics:
Dissociation between explicit and implicit knowledge about motion. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 8(3), 439-453 http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mkozhevnlab/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Impetus_beliefs2001.pdf


Further Reading/Viewing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_change


For fun:

Geocentric vs Heliocentric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waexG16WZrE
"My cabbages!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMhue3iSd4

keywords: concept change, naive theory, confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, piaget, assimilation, accommodation, education, instructional design, game design, educational game design, cognitive psychology