Mostly that represents a blend of wishful thinking, misconception and pseudoscience.
Inference of relatedness by virtue of similarity is common ("Tree-thinking Misconception #4" in Gregory, 2008) and may hinder students' ability to see the representations of ancestor descendant relationships depicted by trees.
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.
To understand natural selection, students need to overcome typological thinking, genetic misconceptions, and poor scientific thinking skills.
Such thinking can lead to misconceptions, such as thinking that cells in a body must have different DNA, because the cells look different from one another.
If it means that we have to have a clicker question the next time to probe this more thoroughly or if maybe I just got to throw it out there and see what they're thinking and where the misconception might be or why they're answering it the way they're answering it".
Target misconceptions directly - Once an instructor has identified student misconceptions and/or has referred to the literature and is aware of student misconceptions, they can encourage students to confront their own misconceptions and restructure their thinking.
The term high tech, normally used to refer to fields such as information technology and biotechnology, has distorted thinking about competition, creating the misconception that only a handful of businesses compete in sophisticated ways.
They refute a number of misconceptions and challenge the faulty thinking that surrounds the discussion of North Korea, particularly the idea that North Korea is an irrational actor.
Researchers and instructors should work together to build an appropriate tree thinking diagnostic test by considering the known misconceptions about tree thinking (see Gregory 2008) through the lens of tree thinking literacy for the average educated individual.
