Only medium-level incongruity between individual knowledge and wiki information causes cognitive conflict that motivates equilibration¶

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q1 i? Following Hunt (1965), the article proposes an inverted u-shaped relation between incongruity and cognitive conflict: very small incongruity leaves no need for equilibration, very large incongruity reduces that need because the wiki and the learner's knowledge are hardly perceived as one topic, and medium incongruity motivates assimilation or accommodation. → Ulrike Cress & Joachim Kimmerle 2008

Evidence¶

Ulrike Cress & Joachim Kimmerle 2008¶

Ulrike Cress & Joachim Kimmerle. (2008). A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-007-9035-z

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Theoretical proposal in the Motivational processes section, displayed in Fig. 3 as an inverted u-shaped relation for four levels of topic valence. If incongruity is very small there is no need for equilibration; if very large, wiki information and knowledge are hardly perceived as one topic. No empirical test is reported.

"We propose that only a medium-level incongruity causes a cognitive conflict which motivates people to engage in one of the equilibration processes described above."

Discussion¶

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