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Chapter Seven
Educational Psychology: Developing Learners
6th edition
Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
Constructive Processes
Concepts
Overgeneralization and undergeneralization
are common occurrences.
Overgeneralization: Including objects or events that
arent true members of the category
Undergeneralization: Too narrow a view about
which objects or events the concept includes
Script
Schema that involves a predictable
sequence of events related to a common
activity
E.g., what happens when you go to the doctor?
Culturally influenced