A Critical Reappraisal of the Evidence for Unconscious Abstraction of Deterministic Rules in Complex Experimental Situations.

Perruchet, Pierre; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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A Critical Reappraisal of the Evidence for Unconscious Abstraction of Deterministic Rules in Complex Experimental Situations.

Perruchet, Pierre; And Others

Cognitive Psychology, v22 n4 p493-516 Oct 1990

P. Lewicki and others (1988) suggested that subjects unconsciously abstract tacit knowledge about a complex pattern of events in a situation that departs from the artificial grammar learning pattern. The present experiment with 40 third year university students offers an alternative framework that does not assume unconscious rule abstraction. (SLD)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Learning Processes, Reaction Time, Research Methodology

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