Students enter classrooms with preconceived notions of how the world works.
They represent the mind's attempt to connect new information with information already stored in memory. Their study has been influenced by models originating out of cognitive psychology. Misconceptions may originate from personal experience, imprecise language, lack of examples and non-examples in concept formation, media representation of phenomena, errors in logic, and textbooks. Misconceptions exist in all the science areas. Misconceptions interfere with further learning, as new information is linked to the existing misconception.