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Evolution and Children’s Cognitive and Academic Development
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“Based on Geary ' s distinction between biologically primary and secondary knowledge (Geary 2008, 2012; Geary and Berch 2016), evolutionary educational psychology allows us to categorise information in instructionally meaningful ways that now are central to cognitive load theory (Sweller 2016a).”
From Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later (2019) · cites this paper as Geary and Berch 2016
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“Information can be categorised as either biologically primary or secondary (Geary, 2008, 2024; Geary & Berch, 2016).”
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- Authors
- Geary, D. C., & Berch, D. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Missouri (US)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Geary, David C.
- Venue
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 217-249
- ISSN
- 2197-9898 (ISSN-L)
- 2197-9901
- OpenAlex
- W2460574198
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 180
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 20.66
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Evolutionary psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Psychology of Development and Education
- Keywords
- child cognitive development, academic development, folk psychology, folk biology, folk physics, cognitive biases, motivational biases, educational intervention design
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