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Direct linkKeil, Frank C.; Lockhart, Kristi L.; Schlegel, Esther – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
In 4 studies, the authors examined how intuitions about the relative difficulties of the sciences develop. In Study 1, familiar everyday phenomena in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and economics were pretested in adults, so as to be equally difficult to explain. When participants in kindergarten, Grades 2, 4, 6, and 8, and college were…
Descriptors: Psychology, Experience, Natural Sciences, Social Psychology
