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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Abstract knowledge"”.
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A Social Realist Case Study of Knowledge and Pedagogy in the First Two Years of Electrical Engineering Education
… requires developing a complex set of linked abstract knowledge about invisible phenomena which are difficult to teach and learn. Often students do not gain abstract knowledge but rote-learn isolated facts instead; and rather than develop the capability to reason using abstract knowledge, they …
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Spatial and Conceptual navigation in Early Blind people: Testing the scaffolding hypothesis of cognitive maps
… associated with the encoding of both spatial and abstract knowledge. However, in the field of cognitive maps, the precise relationship between spatial and conceptual knowledge remains unclear. Here, we take blindness as a model to test whether the mechanisms ontogenetically evolved to navigate in …
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Impact of web metrics on news decisions
… and less use of traditional journalistic abstract knowledge to determine newsworthiness. Crucially, however, in the newsroom of greater metric use, a commitment to the traditional journalistic norm of civic duty served to reduce the differences between the organizations. The implications …
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A Time-Series Analysis Of Implicit Learning And Tacit Knowledge And The Heuristic Value Of Methods Used To Substantiate The Cognitive Unconscious
Abstract: two central topics of debate persist in the field of implicit learning (il): (1) whether learning and the subsequent knowledge acquired during artificial grammar learning (agl) tasks are best characterized as conscious or unconscious, (2) whether the acquired knowledge is bound more to …
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Dynamic application of problem solving strategies : dependency-based flow control
… network, informed by higher-order knowledge about goals and what is known, to selectively control the activity of underlying problem solvers. Knowledge within each problem solver as well as the constraint-propagation network are represented as a network of explicit propositions, …
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Computing moral hypotheticals
… moral judgments. I identify what specialized knowledge we need in order to know which hypothetical alternatives to consider. I show how to connect abstract knowledge about moral harms to the particular details in a story. Finally, I show how the system can assess outcomes in a purely …
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Associative implicit learning in adult dyslexic readers
… dyslexics have deficit in learning more complex knowledge, such as longer chunks or abstract knowledge (i.e., 'what'); if learning occurs at different stages in dyslexics compared to non-dyslexics (i.e., when); how dyslexics learn, and especially the role of both implicit and explicit processes …
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A Novel Approach to Modeling Contextual Privacy Preference and Practice
… exacerbated by a disconnect between abstract knowledge of privacy and concrete information requirements of privacy design frameworks. In this work, we present a novel approach for the modeling of contextual privacy preference and practice. The process guides a 'privacy analyst' …
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Experiencing language in the order that children do: Training on age-ordered child-directed speech facilitates semantic category learning in a recurrent neural network
Previous work has shown that semantic category knowledge can be captured by a distributional learning algorithm operating over naturalistic, noisy child-directed speech (Huebner & Willits, 2018). In chapter 1 of this work, I discuss the algorithm behind this study, and its ability to represent …
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From Words to Worlds: Bridging Language and Thought
… query beliefs about many different domains of knowledge. In the second section, I turn to language that communicates more abstract conceptual knowledge – generic background concepts and theories that we can learn from language, and which give us building blocks for representing more concrete …
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Growing a green job : essays on social movements and the emergence of a new occupation
… formation - the creation of new practices and abstract knowledge, task bundling and shaping of favorable market demand - were directly linked to the efforts of social movement activists and organizations over a 40-year period. I conclude that social movements can provide one means by which new, …
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Representations of the Care of the Soul in Early Christian Texts
… Greco-Roman philosophies as the pursuit of abstract knowledge. He proposes instead conceiving of these philosophies more broadly as sets of practices that focused on “the care of the self/soul.” Such care involved exercises (“technologies of the self”) effecting both identity formation and …
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DC circuits : contextual variation of student responses
… to explain these problems: "misconceptions" and "knowledge-in-pieces". The former is based on the assumption that student ideas are unitary, static and independent of context, while the latter considers student ideas to arise dynamically from flexible combinations of "pieces of knowledge" and that …
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Grammatical productivity in Mandarin resultative verb compounds
… of children’s lexical and syntactic knowledge to the grammatical productivity demonstrated in novel word production tasks. Overall, findings of the dissertation served to clarify the relationship between grammatical productivity and the abstract knowledge of language. Research …
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Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research
Abstract: Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research In this thesis, I have taken an English independent school as a case study and used an evolving design to explore teachers’ views of school education, teacher knowledge and teacher research, …
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The role of metaconceptual evaluation in fifth grade students' construction of explanatory models of magnetic phenomena
… observing magnetic phenomena or as introducing abstract knowledge, without asking students to construct their own models to account for magnetic phenomena. Also, as suggested by educational research, metacognition is important in such model construction. However, little research explores the …
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Concepts and Schemas: Representational Format for Structured Knowledge
… the neural processing of physical space and of abstract knowledge, such that the established neural mechanisms for spatial navigation may also shed light on how we represent conceptual knowledge. In this thesis, we present a set of behavioural experiments examining the representational format of …
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Negotiating a path to professional efficacy: A narrative analysis of the experiences of four pre-service educators
… of the construction of and the content of the knowledge created by the pre-service educators from their experiences --- to investigate and describe the relationship of the knowledge constructed by the pre-service educators to the development of a sense of professional efficacy. The study …