Wei Jia, Lei Liu, Gang Peng
The Impact of Social Media on Users' Self-Efficacy and Loneliness: An Analysis of the Mediating Mechanism of Social Support
Psychology research and behavior management
suggestions improving text understanding often prescribe activating prior knowledge prescription may problematic students relevant prior knowledge begin within article describe research method developing prior knowledge prepares students learn text lecturewe propose analyzing contrasting cases help learners generate differentiated knowledge structures enable understand text deeplynoticing distinctions contrasting cases creates time telling learners prepared told significance distinctions discoveredin 3 classroom studies college students analyzed contrasting cases consisted simplified experimental designs data classic psychology experimentsthey received lecture text psychological phenomena highlighted experimentsapproximately 1 week later students predicted outcomes hypothetical experiment could interpreted light concepts studiedgenerating distinctions contrasting cases reading text hearing lecture led accurate predictions control treatments reading distinctions cases hearing lecture b summarizing relevant text hearing lecture c analyzing contrasting cases twice without receiving lecturewe argue analyzing contrasting cases increased students abilities discern specific features differentiated classes psychological phenomena much botanist distinguish subspecies given flowerthis differentiated knowledge prepared students understand deeply explanation relevant psychological principles presented themthese results inform constructivist models instruction apply classroom activities learning verbal materialsin particular results indicate place lectures readings classroom students sufficiently differentiated domain knowledge use expository materials generative manner