Effects of Hypothesis Generation on Hypothesis Testing in Rule-Discovery Tasks

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-34

  Adsit, Dennis J ^b   London, Manuel ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rath & Strong   (United States)

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EID: 0039214792     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221309709595505     Document Type: Article

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