When misconceptions are characterized as mistakes, it minimizes the role they play in children's learning.
In this sense, anthropomorphic misconceptions can be characterized as either internal (attributing adaptive change to the intentional actions of organisms) or external (conceiving of natural selection or "Nature" as a conscious agent; e.g., Kampourakis and Zogza 2008; Sinatra et al. 2008).
Furthermore, this population is characterized by irregular utilization of healthcare services due to inaccessibility, immobility, misconceptions, and poverty [ 14].
Vinner is careful to distinguish between pseudo-conceptual modes of thinking and misconceptions, noting that the latter have definite cognitive involvement while the former are characterized by the lack of cognitive involvement.
He characterized GumGum as "an engineering company focused on image recognition," as opposed to the "common misconception … that we're a marketing company that found this new ad unit".
Our data gathering has the benefit of characterizing the relative popularity of misconceptions that teachers may encounter in the different grade bands, data that are only rarely found in the research literature.
One of the biggest [inaudible] misconceptions that drives me crazy is when the press characterizes Darrell as "Darrell, a publicity-seeking whatever".
To better characterize the various ways in which the BER community utilizes the term misconception, we engaged in a review of articles, essays, and features (heretofore collectively considered as "articles") published in CBE Life Sciences Education during a 3-yr period (2010 2012).
Because our community of researchers lacks a consensus on how to characterize knowledge that conflicts with expert ideas, we need to define how we used the term misconception in this study (see Gilbert and Watts, 1983; Tanner and Allen, 2005).
In response to a blog post characterizing the raise as an emergency round of debt financing, LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy issued a new memo to employees clearing up some misconceptions about the raise.
