Acquisition of Structured Knowledge Without Instruction: The Relational Schema Induction Paradigm

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 586-603

  Halford, Graeme S ^a   Busby, Janie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

implicit learning; mental models; relational knowledge; schema induction; structured knowledge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34547472452     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.3.586     Document Type: Article

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