Is inferential reasoning just probabilistic reasoning in disguise?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1315-1323

  Markovits, Henry ^a   Handley, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTECEDENT VARIABLE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LOGIC; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33645730127     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193231     Document Type: Article

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