The suppression of q card selections: Evidence for deductive inference in Wason's selection Task

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1224-1242

  Feeney, Aidan ^a   Handley, Simon J ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0034321786     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755944     Document Type: Article

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