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