Dual-goal facilitation in Wason's 2-4-6 task: What mediates successful rule discovery?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 873-885

  Gale, Maggie ^a   Ball, Linden J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; GOALS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646348750     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980543000051     Document Type: Article

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