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1. Conocimiento previo, modelos mentales y resolución de problemas. Un estudio con alumnos de bachillerato.

Author

Solaz-Portolés, Joan Josep and López, Vicent Sanjosé

Subjects
*THOUGHT & thinking, *SCHOLARLY method, *SECONDARY education, PROBLEM solving ability testing
Abstract

In this paper an experiment was carried out to test the theory of mental models of Johnson-Laird, which classifies subjects according to their previous knowledge. The subjects of the experiment were high school students of Valencia (Spain), to whom a problem solving test was administered. The results found seem to confirm that an inverse relation between the number of mental models implied in the problem and the percentage of subjects that solve it correctly, as the theory predicts. Moreover, subjects of higher previous knowledge do not always solve problems significantly better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008