chapter 8.1

Question 1

Self explanation effect

Answer 1

with respect to learning, generating explanations to oneself or to others facilitates the integration of new information into existing bodies of knowledge and can lead to deeper understanding; this is called the self explanation effect

Question 2

Understanding

Answer 2

involves grasping why or how something came about or is the way that it is

Question 3

Illusion of explanatory depth

Answer 3

believing they understand the world more clearly and in greater detail than they actually do.

Question 4

Nomological conception of explanation

Answer 4

According to this conception, a scientific explanation references a law that can account for the phenomenon to be explained