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Liu, Ying; Liu, Ru-De; Star, Jon; Wang, Jia; Zhen, Rui; Tong, Huimin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
The More A-More B intuitive rule has become a research hotspot in the field of mathematical education in recent years. The intuitive rule of More A-More B is often reflected in students' responses to comparison tasks. In such tasks, students are asked to compare 2 objects that differ in a certain salient quantity A (where A[subscript 1] >…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cognitive Processes, Intuition, Interference (Learning)
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Helsabeck, Fred – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Results indicate that for the task of generating counterexamples to invalid syllogisms, a primary source of difficulty is the first step of forming the negation of the conclusion, especially if the conclusion is a "Some are not" statement. When this step is done for the subject, most of the errors disappear. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Diagrams, Difficulty Level, Error Patterns, Higher Education