List of illusions of understanding - Revision history

Vipul at 03:58, 4 December 2023

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	An '''illusion of understanding''' or '''illusion of knowing''' is a form of poor [[metacognition]] in which one thinks one knows something that one does not in fact know. An illusion of understanding can happen in both [[explainer]]s and [[learner]]s.		An '''illusion of understanding''' or '''illusion of knowing''' is a form of poor [[metacognition]] in which one thinks one knows something that one does not in fact know. An illusion of understanding can happen in both [[explainer]]s and [[learner]]s.

			See also [[:Category:Learning failures]].

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Issa Rice at 23:30, 12 February 2019

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	"Rereading a chapter a second time, for example, can provide a sense of familiarity or perceptual fluency that we interpret as understanding or comprehension, but may actually be a product of low-level perceptual priming. Similarly, information coming readily to mind can be interpreted as evidence of learning, but could instead be a product of cues that are present in the study situation, but that are unlikely to be present at a later time. We can also be misled by our current performance. Conditions of learning that make performance improve rapidly often fail to support long-term retention and transfer, whereas conditions that create challenges and slow the rate of apparent learning often optimize long-term retention and transfer." [https://teaching.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2016/02/Making-Things-Hard-on-Yourself-but-in-a-Good-Way-2011.pdf (Bjork and Bjork)]		"Rereading a chapter a second time, for example, can provide a sense of familiarity or perceptual fluency that we interpret as understanding or comprehension, but may actually be a product of low-level perceptual priming. Similarly, information coming readily to mind can be interpreted as evidence of learning, but could instead be a product of cues that are present in the study situation, but that are unlikely to be present at a later time. We can also be misled by our current performance. Conditions of learning that make performance improve rapidly often fail to support long-term retention and transfer, whereas conditions that create challenges and slow the rate of apparent learning often optimize long-term retention and transfer." [https://teaching.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2016/02/Making-Things-Hard-on-Yourself-but-in-a-Good-Way-2011.pdf (Bjork and Bjork)]

			http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail (I think this post reinvents the "illusion of explanatory depth" idea)

Issa Rice at 00:50, 14 December 2018

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	"Rereading a chapter a second time, for example, can provide a sense of familiarity or perceptual fluency that we interpret as understanding or comprehension, but may actually be a product of low-level perceptual priming. Similarly, information coming readily to mind can be interpreted as evidence of learning, but could instead be a product of cues that are present in the study situation, but that are unlikely to be present at a later time. We can also be misled by our current performance. Conditions of learning that make performance improve rapidly often fail to support long-term retention and transfer, whereas conditions that create challenges and slow the rate of apparent learning often optimize long-term retention and transfer." [https://teaching.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2016/02/Making-Things-Hard-on-Yourself-but-in-a-Good-Way-2011.pdf]		"Rereading a chapter a second time, for example, can provide a sense of familiarity or perceptual fluency that we interpret as understanding or comprehension, but may actually be a product of low-level perceptual priming. Similarly, information coming readily to mind can be interpreted as evidence of learning, but could instead be a product of cues that are present in the study situation, but that are unlikely to be present at a later time. We can also be misled by our current performance. Conditions of learning that make performance improve rapidly often fail to support long-term retention and transfer, whereas conditions that create challenges and slow the rate of apparent learning often optimize long-term retention and transfer." [https://teaching.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2016/02/Making-Things-Hard-on-Yourself-but-in-a-Good-Way-2011.pdf (Bjork and Bjork)]

Issa Rice at 00:50, 14 December 2018

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			"Rereading a chapter a second time, for example, can provide a sense of familiarity or perceptual fluency that we interpret as understanding or comprehension, but may actually be a product of low-level perceptual priming. Similarly, information coming readily to mind can be interpreted as evidence of learning, but could instead be a product of cues that are present in the study situation, but that are unlikely to be present at a later time. We can also be misled by our current performance. Conditions of learning that make performance improve rapidly often fail to support long-term retention and transfer, whereas conditions that create challenges and slow the rate of apparent learning often optimize long-term retention and transfer." [https://teaching.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2016/02/Making-Things-Hard-on-Yourself-but-in-a-Good-Way-2011.pdf]

Issa Rice at 03:25, 7 November 2018

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	\| [[Illusion of transparency]] \|\| \|\| [[Explainer]] \|\|		\| [[Illusion of transparency]]/curse of knowledge \|\| \|\| [[Explainer]] \|\|
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	\| [[Double illusion of transparency]] \|\| \|\| [[Explainer]] and [[learner]] simultaneously \|\|		\| [[Double illusion of transparency]] \|\| \|\| [[Explainer]] and [[learner]] simultaneously \|\|

Issa Rice at 03:14, 7 November 2018

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			An '''illusion of understanding''' or '''illusion of knowing''' is a form of poor [[metacognition]] in which one thinks one knows something that one does not in fact know. An illusion of understanding can happen in both [[explainer]]s and [[learner]]s.

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Issa Rice at 03:25, 6 November 2018

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	\| [[Illusion of explanatory depth]] \|\| \|\| [[Learner]] \|\|		\| [[Illusion of explanatory depth]] \|\| \|\| [[Learner]] \|\|
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			\| Illusions of the outsourced mind [https://www.coursera.org/lecture/intellectual-humility-science/illusions-of-the-outsourced-mind-74bDf] \|\| \|\| \|\|
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	\| [[wikipedia:Illusory superiority\|Illusory superiority]] \|\| \|\| [[Explainer]] and [[learner]] (not necessarily simultaneously) \|\|		\| [[wikipedia:Illusory superiority\|Illusory superiority]] \|\| \|\| [[Explainer]] and [[learner]] (not necessarily simultaneously) \|\|

Issa Rice at 23:42, 5 November 2018

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	\| [[Illusion of explanatory depth]] \|\| \|\| [[Learner]] \|\|		\| [[Illusion of explanatory depth]] \|\| \|\| [[Learner]] \|\|
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	\| [[wikipedia:Impostor syndrome\|Impostor syndrome]] \|\| \|\| \|\|		\| [[wikipedia:Impostor syndrome\|Impostor syndrome]] \|\| \|\| [[Explainer]] and [[learner]] (not necessarily simultaneously) \|\|
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