Effects of metacognitive thinking and knowledge acquisition in dyads on individual problem solving and transfer performance

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 251-261

  Brand, Serge ^a   Reimer, T ^b   Opwis, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dyads; Information processing; Metacognition; Tower of Hanoi

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346307366     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.62.4.251     Document Type: Article

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