After many years in school, it's easy to get the impression that learning is mostly about facts. But there's a whole diverse world of different kinds of knowledge out there. Let's explore it! 00:00 Introduction 00:17 The fact 1:11 The look-up table 2:12 Conceptual knowledge - how is a concept different than a fact? 3:30 How we learn concepts 4:12 The benefits of concepts 5:18 Procedural knowledge and skill 5:43 The difference between conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge 6:27 Unbalanced knowledge 7:30 Bare association 8:18 The ability to recognize something 8:54 I shouldn't talk about this one If you want to be the first to know about the courses I'm releasing, sign up here: https://forms.gle/px7ZmXkvJW26uFWp8 Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/ REFERENCES On the interaction of procedural and conceptual knowledge, see: Rittle-Johnson, B., Schneider, M., & Star, J. R. (2015). Not a one-way street: Bidirectional relations between procedural and conceptual knowledge of mathematics. Educational Psychology Review, 27(4), 587-597. https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb1/prof/PSY/PAE/Team/Schneider/Rittle-JohnsonEtAl2015.pdf (Math) Schauble, L. (1996). The development of scientific reasoning in knowledge-rich contexts. Developmental Psychology, 32(1), 102. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leona-Schauble/publication/232578689_The_development_of_scientific_reasoning_in_knowledge-rich_contexts/links/56eaa8f108ae7858657fde00/The-development-of-scientific-reasoning-in-knowledge-rich-contexts.pdf (Science) For a more complicated, great take on knowledge in problem solving, see: De Jong, T., & Ferguson-Hessler, M. G. (1996). Types and qualities of knowledge. Educational psychologist, 31(2), 105-113. https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/6401593/types.pdf For the difference between varieties of recall and recognition, see: Richardson-Klavehn, A., & Bjork, R. A. (1988). Measures of memory. Annual review of psychology, 39(1), 475-543. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Bjork-2/publication/234837363_Measures_Of_Memory/links/0deec52efb30acdddd000000/Measures-Of-Memory.pdf ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The gravity demonstration comes from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg. However, there are plenty of good arguments as to why this isn't a terribly helpful analogy: http://newsletter.oapt.ca/files/general-relativiy-analogies.html