http://netvouz.com/pdboyer/tag/wikipedia?feed=rss pdboyer's bookmarks tagged "wikipedia" on Netvouz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_misconceptions In general, scientific misconceptions have their foundations in a few "intuitive knowledge domains, including folkmechanics (object boundaries and movements), folkbiology (biological species configurations and relationships), and folkpyschology (interactive agents and goal-directed behavior)",[1] that enable humans to interact effectively with the world in which they evolved. That these folksciences do not map accurately onto modern scientific theory is not unexpected. A second major source of scientific misconceptions are instruction-induced or didaskalogenic misconceptions. Misconceptions can be broken down into five basic categories 1) preconceived notions; 2) nonscientific beliefs; 3) conceptual misunderstandings; 4) vernacular misconceptions; and 5... pdboyer Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:50:14 GMT