Prior beliefs and methodological concepts in scientific reasoning

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-221

  Greenhoot, Andrea Follmer ^a   Semb, George ^a   Colombo, John ^a   Schreiber, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 7744219985     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.959     Document Type: Article

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