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Lowe, Richard K. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Shows that the construction of mental representations that capture a situation based on the comprehension of a diagram are mediated by the possession of appropriate background knowledge. Indicates that background knowledge deficiencies may make it difficult for beginning students of a domain to construct suitable mental representations from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Mapping, Diagrams