3 Chapter 3FIGURE 3.1: A slightly modified version of our simple diagram of the mind....FIGURE 3.2: Subjects were shown 40 drawings of common objects and then had t...FIGURE 3.3: Bits of information that I am certain I have paid attention to a...FIGURE 3.4: Material that is in the author's long-term memory even though th...FIGURE 3.5: Emotional events tend to be well remembered, whether they are ha...FIGURE 3.6: Can you find the real penny among the counterfeits? People are t...FIGURE 3.7: We seldom think about it, but the context in which we think abou...FIGURE 3.8: How would each of these men be as a teacher? In Game of Thrones,FIGURE 3.9: Senators listening to evidence during President Trump's 2020 imp...FIGURE 3.10: A tree diagram showing the typical structure of a lesson plan o...FIGURE 3.11: Alternative organization for a lesson plan on Pearl Harbor. Fro...FIGURE 3.12: Part of the organizational scheme for a lesson plan on the Z-sc...FIGURE 3.13: A biology teacher may be most interested in students appreciati...
4 Chapter 4FIGURE 4.1: “force = mass × acceleration” is difficult to understand because...FIGURE 4.2: There are four, and only four, ways that numbers on a scale rela...FIGURE 4.3: Here are three other examples of scales of measurement: centimet...FIGURE 4.4: The fear that students merely parrot ideas that they don't under...FIGURE 4.5: Title page to Sir John Suckling's “Fragmenta Aurea.” Even if a s...FIGURE 4.6: Most classrooms have rules, sometimes made public in a list like...FIGURE 4.7: The relationship of deep and surface structure in the rays-tumor...FIGURE 4.8: Comedies sometimes make use of failures to transfer known soluti...
5 Chapter 5FIGURE 5.1: Our simple model of the mind.FIGURE 5.2: There is a right and a wrong way to tie your shoes. It's all abo...FIGURE 5.3: Name each picture, ignoring the text. It's hard to ignore when t...FIGURE 5.4: This sentence is written in a simple code: 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, ...FIGURE 5.5: A graph showing how much students remembered of the material fro...FIGURE 5.6: The performance on a basic algebra test by people who took the c...FIGURE 5.7: This simple figure illustrates what cognitive scientists call th...FIGURE 5.8: When you think about it, deep understanding of permissions are c...
6 Chapter 6FIGURE 6.1: Hugh Laurie as the expert diagnostician Gregory House.FIGURE 6.2: In this experiment, people get a brief look at a chess board and...FIGURE 6.3: Novices tended to put the top two figures in the same category b...FIGURE 6.4: New York City's Carnegie Hall is a renowned concert venue. An ol...FIGURE 6.5: Experimenters asked violinists how many hours per week (on avera...FIGURE 6.6: Thomas Alva Edison, famous for inventing or greatly improving th...FIGURE 6.7: Experts still practice. (a) Brilliant jazz pianist Hank Jones, s...FIGURE 6.8: Each line shows where the reader's eyes paused when reading a pa...
7 Chapter 7FIGURE 7.1: Marta Vieira da Silva and Abby Wambach are considered among the ...FIGURE 7.2: Two methods of determining field dependence or independence. At ...FIGURE 7.3: Learners with different styles might benefit from different ways...FIGURE 7.4: What does the word footbath mean? You know it means to soak one'...FIGURE 7.5: When my first daughter was born, one of the nurses told me, “Oh,...FIGURE 7.6: American biologist E. O. Wilson was a good enough scientist to e...
8 Chapter 8FIGURE 8.1: Two views of intelligence. According to the view on the left, a ...FIGURE 8.2: The dominant view of intelligence. There is a general intelligen...FIGURE 8.3: Two views of intelligence. On the left is Charles Darwin, common...FIGURE 8.4: Identical twins (and American Democratic politicians) Julián and...FIGURE 8.5: Who would you select for your team?FIGURE 8.6: This graph shows IQ score gains in all available data, worldwide...FIGURE 8.7: You could imagine going to a bar Trivia Night with Felix; he'd o...
9 Chapter 9FIGURE 9.1: In the backward digit span task, subjects hear a list of digits,...FIGURE 9.2: A typical experiment testing task switching.FIGURE 9.3: A typical Fotomat kiosk. At its peak, there were more than 4000 ...FIGURE 9.4: Document camera hack. They've come down in price, but this ingen...FIGURE 9.5: Why should you commit, say, the quadratic equation, to memory? I...FIGURE 9.6: Even teachers who discourage students from taking note on laptop...FIGURE 9.7: Connie Bernard, a member of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, school b...FIGURE 9.8: Data showing how much the average American (of different ages) r...FIGURE 9.9: This photo of a woman texting in front of the Shwedagon pagoda i...FIGURE 9.10: Imagine you're at the grocery store and you spy chocolate chip ...FIGURE 9.11: The experimenter might ask, “Would you rather have $200 a month...
10 Chapter 10FIGURE 10.1: The return, and the swan song, of just about the simplest model...FIGURE 10.2: I have a great deal of driving experience, but I have practiced...FIGURE 10.3: Most of us treat Scrabble as a diversion, but tournament player...FIGURE 10.4: French students learning the results of their baccalaureat. Tea...FIGURE 10.5: Chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana's preparations for a tourname...FIGURE 10.6: Avid golfers video themselves in an effort to learn more about ...FIGURE 10.7: Resolving to do something difficult is easy. Following through ...FIGURE 10.8: Writer David Sedaris2 on keeping a diary: “Most of it's just wh...
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