Many scientific findings conflict with our gut sense of what is working, making teaching and learning harder. Our perceptions about what’s working in the learning process often conflict with ...

One of the strangest quirks of memory is that we cannot trust our own intuitions about it. Memory’s underlying mechanisms are largely unavailable to our conscious awareness. Because memory processes ...

Justin Sung explores how cognitive processes, such as schema theory, can make learning complex concepts more manageable. Schemas are mental frameworks that help the brain organize and interpret ...

Your intuition is described as a gut feeling or an instinctive understanding that something is about to happen, whether it be good or bad, without conscious reasoning. Though often difficult to trust, ...

DAVID G. MYERS, a social psychologist at Michigan's Hope College, is the author of "Intuition: Its Powers and Perils." SAY THIS MUCH for President Bush: He is not deaf to the inner whispers of his ...

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One of the strangest quirks of memory is that we cannot trust our own intuitions about it. Memory’s underlying mechanisms are largely unavailable to our conscious awareness. Because memory processes ...