Larkin and her colleagues asked beginning physics students and experienced physicists to think aloud as they solved introductory-level physics word problems. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. experts answered faster than novices
b. experts tended to work backward from the goal to the given
c. experts tended to store each formula separately
d. all of the above
A
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a. accommodation. b. assimilation. c. conservation. d. preoperational stage thinking.
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a. True b. False
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A. Sample 1. B. Sample 2. C. None, both samples will have the same value for standard error. D. There is not enough information to answer this question.