Training propositional reasoning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 868-895

  Klauer, Karl Christoph ^a   Meiser, Thorsten ^a   Naumer, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0034251941     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755911     Document Type: Article

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