Generating alternatives: A key component in human reasoning?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 129-137

  Newstead, Stephen E ^a   Thompson, Valerie A ^b   Handley, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGIC; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036206992     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195272     Document Type: Article

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