Strategic use of number representation is independent of test instruction in random number generation

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 453-462

  Strenge, Hans ^a   Rogge, Carolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYMBOLISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953646192     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 00315125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.110.2.453-462     Document Type: Article

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