Laura R Novick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3485188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura R Novick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura R |
| FAMILY NAME | Novick |
| SIGNATURE | NOVICK L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3383-1923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seeing what you believe
Peoples’ recognition memory for pictorial stimuli is extremely good. Even complex scientific visualisations are recognised with a high degree of accuracy. The present research examined recognition memory for the branching structure of evolutionary trees. This is an educationally consequential topic due to the potential for contamination from students’ misconceptions. The authors created six pairs of scientifically accurate and structurally identi…
Reasoning About Evolution’s Grand Patterns
Tree thinking involves using cladograms, hierarchical diagrams depicting the evolutionary history of a set of taxa, to reason about evolutionary relationships and support inferences. Tree thinking is indispensable in modern science. College students’ tree-thinking skills were investigated using tree (much more common in professional biology) and ladder (somewhat more common in textbooks) cladogram formats. Students’ responses to questions assessi…
A probabilistic contrast model of causal induction
Deviations from the predictions of covariational models of causal attribution have often been reported in the literature. These include a bias against using consensus information, a bias toward attributing effects to a person, and a tendency to make a variety of unpredicted conjunctive attributions. It is contended that these deviations, rather than representing irrational biases, could be due to (a) unspecified information over which causal infe…
A probabilistic contrast model of causal induction
Deviations from the predictions of covariational models of causal attribution have often been reported in the literature. These include a bias against using consensus information, a bias toward attributing effects to a person, and a tendency to make a variety of unpredicted conjunctive attributions. It is contended that these deviations, rather than representing irrational biases, could be due to (a) unspecified information over which causal infe…
Reasoning About Evolution’s Grand Patterns
Tree thinking involves using cladograms, hierarchical diagrams depicting the evolutionary history of a set of taxa, to reason about evolutionary relationships and support inferences. Tree thinking is indispensable in modern science. College students’ tree-thinking skills were investigated using tree (much more common in professional biology) and ladder (somewhat more common in textbooks) cladogram formats. Students’ responses to questions assessi…
A probabilistic contrast model of causal induction
Deviations from the predictions of covariational models of causal attribution have often been reported in the literature. These include a bias against using consensus information, a bias toward attributing effects to a person, and a tendency to make a variety of unpredicted conjunctive attributions. It is contended that these deviations, rather than representing irrational biases, could be due to (a) unspecified information over which causal infe…
Reasoning About Evolution’s Grand Patterns
Tree thinking involves using cladograms, hierarchical diagrams depicting the evolutionary history of a set of taxa, to reason about evolutionary relationships and support inferences. Tree thinking is indispensable in modern science. College students’ tree-thinking skills were investigated using tree (much more common in professional biology) and ladder (somewhat more common in textbooks) cladogram formats. Students’ responses to questions assessi…
Seeing what you believe
Peoples’ recognition memory for pictorial stimuli is extremely good. Even complex scientific visualisations are recognised with a high degree of accuracy. The present research examined recognition memory for the branching structure of evolutionary trees. This is an educationally consequential topic due to the potential for contamination from students’ misconceptions. The authors created six pairs of scientifically accurate and structurally identi…
Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Evolution and Science Education (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Analogy (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)