Expertise as mental set: The effects of domain knowledge in creative problem solving

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 716-730

  Wiley, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; EXPERT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0031879214     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211392     Document Type: Article

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