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Revlin, Russell; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1981
Whether overgeneralization of quantified relations in a story reflects reasonable inferences from the story's theme was examined. Subjects read narratives with similar story structures but different thematic conflicts. Recognition results showed that overgeneralization "errors" are systematic, consistent with thematic elements of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Error Analysis (Language), Generalization, Higher Education
