Goal specificity and knowledge acquisition in statistics problem solving: Evidence for attentional focus

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1379-1388

  Trumpower, David L ^a   Goldsmith, Timothy E ^b   Guynn, Melissa J ^c  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 17144387023     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206328     Document Type: Article

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