An Evolutionarily Informed Education Science

By David C. Geary. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education (2013, unknown): “Paas and Sweller (2012) bring up the distinction between biologically primary and secondary knowledge (Geary 2008) and suggest (p. 29) that “Humans are easily able to acquire huge amounts of biologically primary knowledge outside of educational contexts and without a discernible working memory…”
The impact of augmented reality on cognitive load and performance: A systematic review (2021, background): “Another development of CLT concerns the incorporation of the evolutionary account of educational psychology suggested by Geary (2008).”
From Cognitive Load Theory to Collaborative Cognitive Load Theory (2018, background): “The distinction between biologically primary and biologically secondary knowledge2 described by Geary is an instructionally important categorisation scheme (Geary 2008, 2012; Geary and Berch 2016).”
Can Collaborative Learning Improve the Effectiveness of Worked Examples in Learning Mathematics? (2017, background): “However, this advantage may come at a cost (Geary, 1995, 2008), as during collaborative learning, students may tend to automatically develop their general communication and coordination skills, rather than allocating more attention to the assigned biologically secondary knowledge.”
Addressing Challenges to Public Understanding of Science: Epistemic Cognition, Motivated Reasoning, and Conceptual Change (2014, background): “Rather, individuals are equipped to make quick, heuristic judgments that served our ancestors long before formal science was a glimmer in a prehistoric hominid’s eye (Geary, 2008).”
Getting the point: Tracing worked examples enhances learning (2015, background): “Instructional implications of David C. Geary’s evolutionary educational psychology.”
Worked example effects in individual and group work settings (2010, background): “Cognitive load theory (see Sweller, 1999; Sweller, van Merrienboer, & Paas, 1998; van Merrienboer & Ayres, 2005) assumes that subject areas such as mathematics constitute biologically secondary rather than biologically primary knowledge (Geary, 2007, 2008; Sweller, 2007, 2008).”
Effects of the Physical Environment on Cognitive Load and Learning: Towards a New Model of Cognitive Load (2014, background): “Hancock (2001) found that students performed poorly and were less motivated when exposed to highly evaluative classrooms and that this effect was more pronounced for testanxious students.”
Cognitive Load Theory: A Broader View on the Role of Memory in Learning and Education (2014, background): “…Antonenko et al. 2010) and evolutionary educational psychology (e.g., identification of primary and secondary biological skills; Geary 2008; Sweller 2008), it has become apparent that cognitive load theory, research, and practicemay profit from a broader view on the role of…”
Understanding Cognitive Load in Digital and Online Learning: a New Perspective on Extraneous Cognitive Load (2021, background): “While biologically primary knowledge (such as recognizing faces) does not need to be explicitly learned, biologically secondary knowledge (such as foreign languages or knowledge from school subjects) requires effort and instruction to learn (Geary, 2008, as summarized by Sweller et al., 2019).”
Cognitive-Load Theory: Methods to Manage Working Memory Load in the Learning of Complex Tasks (2020, background): “CLT uses evolutionary theory to categorize knowledge into biologically primary and secondary knowledge (Geary, 2007, 2008).”
Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later (2019, background): “Biologically primary knowledge is modular with little relation between the cognitive processes associated with one skill and another (Geary 2008, 2012).”
Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, background): “Table 8.1 Features and Cues for Throwing (adopted from Knudson & Morrison, 1996)”
Giving Learning a Helping Hand: Finger Tracing of Temperature Graphs on an iPad (2015, background): “on Geary (2008) distinction between biologically primary and biologically secondary”