The use of verbal protocols as data: An analysis of insight in the candle problem

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 990-1006

  Fleck, Jessica I ^a   Weisberg, Robert W ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENT; THINKING; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 11144292115     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196876     Document Type: Article

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