Mental models of the Earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood
Abstract
Sixty students from first, third and fifth grades were asked questions about the shape of the earth; students responded with conflicting ideas about the roundness of earth and that it has an edge over which people could fall, suggesting that their model is not that of a sphere.
- Publication:
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Cognitive Psychology
- Pub Date:
- 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992CogPs..24..535V