Instructions, rules, and abstraction: A misconstrued relation

Behavior and Philosophy

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 41-55

  Ribes Iñesta, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Description; Instruction; Prompting; Rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040095385     PISSN: 10538348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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