Information Processing and Insight: A Process Model of Performance on the Nine-Dot and Related Problems

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 176-201

  MacGregor, James N ^a   Ormerod, Thomas C ^b,c   Chronicle, Edward P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85047686188     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.1.176     Document Type: Article

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