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To ask a question, one must know enough to know what is not known

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In this paper, the authors test the notion that a prerequisite for asking questions about new topic matter is some appropriate level of knowledge and find that learners should ask the most questions when their knowledge is well matched to the level of presentation.
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This article is published in Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior.The article was published on 1979-06-01. It has received 326 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Knowledge level.

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Dimensions of Consumer Expertise

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of empirical results from the psychological literature in a way that provides a useful foundation for research on consumer knowledge is provided by two fundamental distinctions: consumer expertise is distinguished from product-related experience and five distinct aspects, or dimensions, of expertise are identified.
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A cognitive theory of consciousness

TL;DR: In this article, the basic model of conscious representations are internally consistent and globally distributed, and the neural basis of conscious experience is explained, including the fundamental role of context, goal contexts, spontaneous problem solving and the stream of consciousness.
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The Effects of Product Class Knowledge on Information Search Behavior

Abstract: The effects of prior knowledge about a product class on various characteristics of pre-purchase information search within that product class are examined. A new search task methodology is used that imposes only a limited amount of structure on the search task: subjects are not cued with a list of attributes, and the problem is not structured in a brand-by-attribute matrix. The results indicate that prior knowledge facilitates the acquisition of new information and increases search efficiency. The results also support the conceptual distinction between objective and subjective knowledge.
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The psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new account of curiosity is proposed that interprets curiosity as a form of cognitively induced deprivation that arises from the perception of a gap in knowledge or understanding.
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Managing What Consumers Learn from Experience

TL;DR: The authors argue that what consumers learn from the experience of using products is not a simple matter of discovering objective truth, and frame the problem of learning from experience as a four-stage process.
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The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.

TL;DR: The ability to represent focus of attention in a languageunderstanding system results in a new approach to an important problemin discourse comprehension -- the identification of the referents ofdefinite noun phrases.
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Dialogue-Games: Metacommunication structures for natural language interaction*

TL;DR: A process model is discussed, showing Dialogue-Game identification, pursuit, and termination as part of the comprehension of dialogue utterances, showing some of the important functional aspects of language, especially indirect uses to achieve implicit communication.
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Can learner questions identify what they don’t know?

Yes, learner questions can identify what they don't know.