Adaptive expertise: Effects of type of experience and the level of theoretical understanding it generates

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 237-267

  Barnett, Susan M ^a   Koslowski, Barbara ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 85068272305     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780244000088     Document Type: Article

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