Common-Sense Chemistry: The Use of Assumptions and Heuristics in Problem Solving

Students experience difficulty learning and understanding chemistry at higher levels, often because of cognitive biases stemming from common sense reasoning constraints. These constraints can be divided into two categories: assumptions (beliefs held about the world around us) and heuristics (the rea...

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Main Author: Maeyer, Jenine
Other Authors: Talanquer, Vicente
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293468

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