Lamina Chase 2019 Developing thirst for knowledge

Question 1

What are the key concepts in what we read?

Answer 1

Examining the relationship between: uncertainty, curiosity, learning, transfer and affect

Question 2

What questions did the authors set out to answer

Answer 2

Does uncertainty have an effect on curiosity ?

Question 3

How did the author(s) go about studying their research question(s)?

Answer 3

1. Procedure
   
   • Instructional content - ratio structure
   • Pretest: learning → instruction day 1 (hookes law) & Instruction day 2 (Newtons law) → Posttest: learning & transfer (ransom assignment and differ by condition
2. What is measured for curiosity and affect during day 1 and day 2
   
   • Curiosity : 8 items measuring if they are interested in what they just learned
   • Affect: 6 pos & 6 neg words - you rate how you feel on a scale of 1-5 for each of these 6 words

Question 4

What did they find?

Answer 4

1. H1: Curiosity - Expected Uncertainty = Unexpected Uncertainty > No Uncertainty (wrong hyp)
   
   1. A similar level of curiosity for EU and UU
   2. UU > EU > NU
2. H2: Affect - NU = EU < UU (correct)
   
   1. Positive affect: there was no difference in EU and UU
3. H3: Learning - EU > UU > NU (wrong)
   
   1. Measured by Pre and post test scores
   2. Similar learning across all conditions
   3. UU = EU = NU
4. Invention task performance : similar across conditions
5. H3.2: Transfer: EU > UU > NU (wrong)
   
   1. doesn’t matter if you feel bad in the moment or not, your transfer scores are not affected
   2. UU = EU > NU
6. Results: Predictor of Learning
   
   1. Positive affect positively predicts learning, above and beyond condition
7. Results: Predictor of Transfer
   
   1. Curiosity predicts transfer, NOT above and beyond condition

Question 5

Why should we care?

Answer 5

Uncertainty and the negative/positve effects -> learning and trasnfer

Question 6

Q1: In the study, uncertainty was induced by ____

Answer 6

Ask students to invent physics formulas themselves

Question 7

Q2: Negative affects (eg. distressed, anxious) usually facilitate students’ learning

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Q3: In the study, curiosity was measured through

Answer 8

Students self-report

Question 9

Uncertainty

Answer 9

• Uncertainty → + negative affect → - Learning and transfer
• Uncertainty → + positive affect → - Learning and transfer

Expected and Unexpected uncertainty will determine learning and transfer