Please join us for two presentations by Alison Miller Singley and
Zi Lin Sim, graduate students in the Department of Psychology.
Each will discuss their current research on Monday, April 15,
12:00-1:30pm in 3105 Tolman Hall.
Alison Miller Singley:
"Work Hard, Play Harder? How Games May Improve Academic
Achievement"
Abstract:
Reasoning is not only an important life skill, it is also essential
for proficiency in mathematics, which has become a gatekeeper
for academic and professional success. Previous research has
shown that children can improve their reasoning skills through
game-playing. In my current project, I seek to determine
whether instruction in chess, a reasoning-intensive game, can
be similarly beneficial for elementary school children, particularly
as it relates to reasoning, mathematics and cognitive capacity.
Zi Lin Sim:
"Infant's Early Understanding of Coincidence"
Abstract
"Coincidences are surprising events that can provide learners with
the opportunity to revise their theories about how the world works.
In the current research, we investigate whether infants are truly
sensitive to coincidences, even when such surprising events cannot
be predicted by the computation of mere probabilities. In addition,
we explore whether this sensitivity is translated into action,
encouraging infants to engage inactivities that may enable them to
revise their theories. Results from 2 experiments demonstrate that
infants display a sensitivity to coincidence similar to adult intuitions,
and they selectively explore objects that produce anomalous data
that better supports an alternative theory than their prior theory."
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