Reasoning with alternative explanations in physics: The cognitive accessibility rule
A critical component of scientific reasoning is the consideration of alternative explanations. Recognizing that decades of cognitive psychology research have demonstrated that relative cognitive accessibility, or “what comes to mind,” strongly affects how people reason in a given context, we articul...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.010120 |