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How can laboratory research in cognitive and developmental psychology contribute to science education.(and vice versa)?

 
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What has research on children’s scientific thinking revealed?

6. Experts use prior knowledge for efficient and rapid encoding of new information

7. Expertise is domain-limited.

8. Analogy is a powerful heuristic for solving problems and learning new material.