Induction as conditional probability judgment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1353-1364

  Blok, Sergey V ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^b   Osherson, Daniel N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 35748979993     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193607     Document Type: Article

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