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ERIC Number: EJ440482
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Organization of Knowledge and Conditional Reasoning.
Ward, Shawn L.; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v82 n4 p832-37 Dec 1990
How the organization of knowledge influences scientific reasoning was studied as 132 college students completed a selection task with familiar or unfamiliar semantic content and interclause relationships expressing or not expressing entailment. Results support a constructivist view of reasoning emphasizing the importance of organization of knowledge. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Knowledge Level, Organization, Schemata (Cognition), Scientific Attitudes, Selection, Semantics, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conditional Logic; Constructivism
Note: Portions of this paper were presented at the Biannual Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (Atlanta, GA, March 22-25, 1990).