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Peer reviewedKlayman, Joshua; Ha, Young-Won – Psychological Review, 1987
It is proposed that many phenomena of human hypothesis testing can be understood in terms of a general positive test strategy. With this strategy, there is a tendency to test cases that are expected to have the property of interest rather than those expected to lack that property. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Feedback, Heuristics
