Believing that Humans Swallow Spiders in Their Sleep: False Beliefs as Side Effects of the Processes that Support Accurate Knowledge

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Marsh, E. J., Cantor, A. D., & Brashier, N. M. (2016). Believing that humans swallow spiders in their sleep: False beliefs as side effects of the processes that support accurate knowledge. In Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 64, pp. 93-132). Academic Press.

C'est un chapitre de livre

Introduction

The Issue at Hand

Defining Knowledge

General Properties of the Knowledge Base

The Knowledge Base Has No Known Capacity Limit

Knowledge Is Interconnected and Organized

Knowledge Is Surprisingly Durable

Much, but Not All, Knowledge Is “Sourceless”

Access to Specific Knowledge Can Shift

People Are Good, but Not Perfect, at Judging What They Know

Examples of Errors

Overview

The Grading Problem

Side Effects of Reading Novels and Watching Movies

Repeated Claims Feel True

Tests Can Teach Errors

Adaptive Processes that Also Support Errors

Overview

Property #1: Bias to Believe Information Is True

Property #2: Fluency-Based Heuristic for Judging Truth

Property #3: The Knowledge Base Is Productive

Property #4: Existing Knowledge Supports New Learning

Property #5: Partial Matches Are Often “Good Enough”

Lingering Questions about Error Representation and Retrieval

Co-existence versus Overwriting

Direct Retrieval versus Construction

A Fluency-Conditional Model of Illusory Truth

Correcting Errors in the Knowledge Base

Overview

Basic Advice for Correction

When Should Feedback Do More than Provide the Answer?

Problem: Teacher and Student Preferences

Problem: Misconceptions May Be Motivated

Conclusions

The Science of Learning Is Not Different for Errors

Comparing Errors of Event Memory to Illusions of Knowledge

Open Question