Soňa ŠtefanikováState Nature Conservancy of Slovak Republic · The administration of the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area
Soňa Štefaniková
PhD
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Introduction
Soňa Štefaniková currently works at the The administration of the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area, State Nature Conservancy of Slovak Republic. Soňa does research in Ecology, Systematics (Taxonomy) and Zoology. Their most recent publication is 'Do We Believe Pictures More or Spoken Words? How Specific Information Affects How Students Learn about Animals'.
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September 2012 - August 2015
Education
September 2012 - August 2015
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The popularity of science education is decreasing in certain parts of the world and negative attitudes toward science are common in learners from various cultures. Learners' interest in science and the effectiveness of their memory can be enhanced by utilizing modern concepts of an evolutionary-based approach in psychology. Survival-relevant inform...
Cognitive abilities, namely memory mechanisms, are energy consuming and, thus, sen-
sitive to survival-relevant information. Dangerous events are expected to receive greater attention
than non-dangerous events because information processing about them and consequent behaviour
ultimately increases the individual fitness. Biology textbooks provide...
