Review
What is concreteness fading? Give an example!
Concrete experiences that shift to abstract understanding for best learning and transfer outcomes (p. 207).
What is the action-cognition transduction principle?
Knowledge can be in nonverbal form, accessed and expressed through movement (p. 209).
It acknowledges the coupling that is formed between our sensorimotor processing and our reasoning processing (p. 190).
What is the biological band?
Where the body and brain's sensorimotor systems (unconscious processes) are critical for understanding and learning (p. 197).
What is grounding? Give an example!
Mapping abstract concepts to concrete things to make meaning (p. 25).
True or False: both procedural and perceptual learning operate best with minimal verbal instruction.
True! (p.p 210-211).
True or False: Reading words like 'lick', 'kick', and 'pick' activate the motor areas of the brain that perform these actions.
True! (pp. 91 & 198).
What is offloading? Give an example!
The ways the external world reduces the demands of our cognitive resources (p. 95).
How can dynamic gestures show action-cognition transduction?
Dynamic gestures ground abstract concepts in physical experience and offloads cognitive work onto the body so that learners can explore concepts and update their understanding. This actively shapes thinking and learning (p. 204).
How is grounding achieved in the biological band?
Through automatic, sensorimotor processes (p. 208).