IMPLICATIONS OF COGNITIVE THEORY FOR INSTRUCTION IN PROBLEM SOLVING
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References (178)
The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.
1994 • 16,641 citations
The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.
1956 • 16,233 citations
Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory.
1977 • 7,025 citations
Human Memory: A Proposed System and its Control Processes
1968 • 6,466 citations
Individual differences in working memory and reading
1980 • 6,193 citations
Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention.
1977 • 5,510 citations
Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices*
1981 • 5,132 citations
The Nature of Human Intelligence
1968 • 4,576 citations
Perception in chess
1973 • 4,216 citations
Verbal reports as data.
1980 • 4,213 citations
The nature of human intelligence
1967 • 3,990 citations
Acquisition of cognitive skill.
1982 • 3,442 citations
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
1985 • 3,110 citations
Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures
1979 • 3,073 citations
Creativity.
1950 • 2,969 citations
Cognitive Skills and Their Acquisition
2013 • 2,909 citations
Schema induction and analogical transfer
1983 • 2,853 citations
A study of thinking
1956 • 2,766 citations
How to Solve It
1945 • 2,733 citations
Advances in Instructional Psychology
2019 • 2,540 citations
The structure of ill structured problems
1973 • 2,479 citations
Theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence: A critical experiment.
1963 • 2,379 citations
The art of thought
1926 • 2,049 citations
On problem-solving
1945 • 1,973 citations
Abilities: Their Structure, Growth, and Action
1974 • 1,947 citations
Thought and Choice in Chess
1978 • 1,898 citations
On problem-solving.
1945 • 1,619 citations
Advances in the psychology of human intelligence
1983 • 1,583 citations
Guiding creative talent.
1962 • 1,577 citations
Medical Problem Solving: An Analysis of Clinical Reasoning
1978 • 1,541 citations
Aptitudes and Instructional Methods: A Handbook for Research on Interactions
1978 • 1,491 citations
Schooling and the Acquisition of Knowledge
1978 • 1,450 citations
Mechanisms of skill acquisition and the law of practice
1993 • 1,387 citations
Medical Problem Solving
1978 • 1,291 citations
Thought and Choice in Chess
1966 • 1,284 citations
Representation and Understanding: Studies in Cognitive Science
1975 • 1,196 citations
A Structure for Plans and Behavior
1977 • 1,180 citations
Diagnostic Models for Procedural Bugs in Basic Mathematical Skills*
1978 • 1,131 citations
Mechanization in problem solving: The effect of Einstellung.
1942 • 1,105 citations
Intelligent tutoring systems
1983 • 1,077 citations
Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art
1953 • 1,071 citations
Cognition, social behavior, and the environment
1981 • 1,013 citations
Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art
1953 • 972 citations
The nature and nurture of creative talent.
1962 • 969 citations
How Big Is a Chunk?
1974 • 916 citations
Subjective organization in free recall of "unrelated" words.
1962 • 876 citations
Skill in Chess
1988 • 790 citations
Modes of thinking in young children: A study of the creativity-intelligence distinction.
1965 • 743 citations
PRIMARY MENTAL ABILITIES
1939 • 732 citations
Academic Work
1983 • 698 citations
Creative person and creative process
1969 • 689 citations
Lateral thinking: Creativity Step by Step
1970 • 669 citations
Individual differences in integrating information between and within sentences.
1983 • 627 citations
An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field
1945 • 625 citations
Cognition and Instruction
2000 • 625 citations
Memory Organization and Structure
1981 • 602 citations
Judgment of contingency between responses and outcomes.
1965 • 578 citations
Aptitude, Learning, and Instruction
2021 • 545 citations
Human problem solving: The state of the theory in 1970.
1971 • 538 citations
Cognitive Psychology and Instruction
1978 • 525 citations
Confirmation Bias in a Simulated Research Environment: An Experimental Study of Scientific Inference
1977 • 518 citations
The real test bias: Influences of testing on teaching and learning.
1984 • 517 citations
An investigation of computer coaching for informal learning activities
1979 • 504 citations
Experimental Psychology
1939 • 500 citations
Chunking in recall of symbolic drawings
1979 • 489 citations
The Making of a Scientist
1953 • 488 citations
Knowledge and Cognition
1975 • 483 citations
Personality and the realization of creative potential.
1965 • 469 citations
What does it mean to be high verbal?
1975 • 453 citations
Contributions to mathematical psychology
1964 • 443 citations
Morphological Astronomy
1957 • 423 citations
Problem Solving and Education: Issues in Teaching and Research
1980 • 389 citations
THE CONCEPT OF CORRELATION IN ADULTS
1963 • 370 citations
Problem solving and education.
1980 • 367 citations
Information-Processing Theory of Human Problem Solving
2014 • 353 citations
Physicians' use of probabilistic information in a real clinical setting.
1981 • 345 citations
Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence
2014 • 331 citations
Individuality in Learning
1978 • 325 citations
Reasoning in humans. I. On direction.
1930 • 323 citations
Discourse Comprehension and Sources of Individual Differences.
1977 • 317 citations
Instrumental Enrichment
1988 • 313 citations
How and How Much Can Intelligence Be Increased
1982 • 309 citations
Creative behavior guidebook
1967 • 292 citations
Skilled perception in Go: Deducing memory structures from inter-response times
1976 • 286 citations
Individual differences in the verification of sentence—picture relationships
1978 • 285 citations
A psychological study of eminent psychologists and anthropologists, and a comparison with biological and physical scientists.
1953 • 277 citations
Components of a Psychology of Instruction: Toward a Science of Design
1976 • 274 citations
Individual Differences in Cognition: A New Approach to Intelligence
1973 • 272 citations
Methods for examining representations of A subject‐matter structure in a student's memory
1974 • 261 citations
Human Intelligence: Perspectives on Its Theory and Measurement
1979 • 259 citations
Prediction of Organizational Behavior
1974 • 259 citations
A CHECK ON THE THEORY OF FLUID AND CRYSTALLIZED INTELLIGENCE WITH DESCRIPTION OF NEW SUBTEST DESIGNS
1978 • 247 citations
Knowledge Compilation: Mechanisms for the Automatization of Cognitive Skills.
1980 • 245 citations
Complexity-simplicity as a personality dimension.
1953 • 242 citations
Scientists in Organizations: Productive Climates for Research and Development
1967 • 232 citations
Physicians' use of probabilistic information in a real clinical setting.
1981 • 227 citations
Knowledge structure and problem solving in physics
1982 • 225 citations
On the training of originality.
1960 • 197 citations
Cognitive psychology's ambiguities: Some suggested remedies.
1982 • 190 citations
Concurrent automatic and controlled visual search: Can processing occur without resource cost?
1982 • 189 citations
The Gifted and the Creative: A Fifty-Year Perspective
1979 • 188 citations
An aptitude × strategy interaction in linear syllogistic reasoning.
1980 • 187 citations
Problem Solving in Semantically Rich Domains: An Example from Engineering Thermodynamics*
1977 • 183 citations
Creativity : its educational implications
1967 • 180 citations
Pseudodiagnosticity
1979 • 179 citations
Patterns of Problem Solving
1975 • 177 citations
Scientists in Organizations: Productive Climates for Research and Development.
1967 • 174 citations
Cognitive correlates and components in the analysis of individual differences
1979 • 171 citations
Effects of goal specificity on means–ends analysis and learning.
1982 • 161 citations
Understanding anaphora: Rules used by readers in assigning pronominal referents∗
1981 • 158 citations
Applied Creativity: The Creative Studies Project
1972 • 142 citations
Creativity: Retrospect and Prospect*
1970 • 129 citations
Mapping cognitive structure: A comparison of methods.
1976 • 107 citations
Internalization of filmic schematic operations in interaction with learners' aptitudes.
1974 • 106 citations
Instrumental Enrichment: Theoretical Basis, Goals, and Instruments
1980 • 94 citations
Measures for the Study of Creativity in Scientific Problem-Solving
1978 • 93 citations
Cognitive Skill: Implications for Spatial Skill in Large-Scale Environments.
1979 • 92 citations
Creative thought in poets
1935 • 87 citations
Literacy: Trends and Explanations
1983 • 82 citations
CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF FREE‐RESPONSE AND MACHINE‐SCORABLE FORMS OF A TEST
1980 • 81 citations
A System for Perception and Memory
1970 • 80 citations
Theory and method for research on aptitude processes
1976 • 77 citations
Indefinite goals in well-structured problems.
1976 • 76 citations
Cognitive modifiability in retarded adolescents: effects of instrumental enrichment.
1979 • 75 citations
Testing through relationship judgments.
1983 • 74 citations
ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK
1946 • 73 citations
Concepts, propositions, and schemata: What are the cognitive units?
1980 • 73 citations
Children's solution processes in elementary arithmetic problems: Analysis and improvement.
1981 • 71 citations
Acquiring cognitive structure by discovery and rule learning.
1973 • 67 citations
Experimental studies in the training of originality.
1960 • 65 citations
Medical diagnosis: An information-processing approach
1972 • 64 citations
A Componential Theory of Reading Skills and Their Interactions.
1981 • 56 citations
Longitudinal tracking of difficult memory retrievals
1982 • 55 citations
Artificial Intelligence and Learning Strategies11This research was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, under contract number MDA903-76-C-0108 and by the Personnel and Training Research Programs, Psychological Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research, and Advanced Research Projects Agency, under contract number N00014-76-C-…
1978 • 54 citations
Information Processing and Memory
1970 • 54 citations
Development of formal hypothesis-testing ability.
1979 • 53 citations
The Psychology of the Inventor. A Study of the Patentee
1932 • 48 citations
Contacts of cognitive psychology with social learning theory
1978 • 47 citations
Scientific Thought
1938 • 47 citations
Evaluating the Teaching of Intelligence1
1972 • 47 citations
Applied Creativity: The Creative Studies Project
1972 • 43 citations
Reasoning as an Associative Process: II. “Direction” in Problem Solving as a Function of Prior Reinforcement of Relevant Responses
1956 • 40 citations
Discovery, invention, research.
1969 • 40 citations
The five day course in thinking
1968 • 37 citations
Analysis and teaching of a general skill for studying scientific text.
1976 • 35 citations
Cognitive dimensions of numerical rule induction.
1982 • 34 citations
Cognitive dimensions of numerical rule induction.
1982 • 33 citations
Social inference as a function of the number of instances and consistency of information presented.
1973 • 33 citations
Developing a Computational Representation for Problem Solving Skills
1978 • 33 citations
Effect of the Number of Pre-Utilization Functions on Functional Fixedness in Problem Solving
1958 • 31 citations
Effects of models of creative performance on ability to formulate hypotheses.
1974 • 31 citations
Guiding Creative Action
1977 • 28 citations
The facilitation of problem solving by prior exposure to uncommon responses.
1958 • 28 citations
The learning and transfer of double-classification skills: A replication and extension
1971 • 28 citations
Anxiety and learning to formulate hypotheses.
1969 • 27 citations
Cognitive factors in the recognition of ambiguous auditory and visual stimuli.
1967 • 27 citations
The Development of Mathematical Thinking
2009 • 25 citations
Further factorial studies of tests of rigidity.
1952 • 25 citations
Learning to solve insight problems
1981 • 25 citations
Analysis and teaching of a general skill for studying scientific text.
1976 • 23 citations
Psychological reality of physical concepts
1970 • 22 citations
Clinical experience and the structure of memory.
1979 • 21 citations
The Assessment and Modification of Concept Interrelationships
1983 • 20 citations
Intelligence : perspectives 1965
1966 • 19 citations
Trends and Research Questions in Psychological Research on Learning and Schooling
1979 • 19 citations
The future of IQ testing in education
1979 • 18 citations
Componential Approaches to the Training of Intelligent Performance.
1980 • 18 citations
Cognitive and Affective Components of Creativity in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences
1976 • 18 citations
Stimulating Creativity: Vol. 1. Individual Procedures
1978 • 17 citations
DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR SELECTION AND EVALUATION IN UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
1981 • 16 citations
Some Information-Processing Correlates Of Measures Of Intelligence
1978 • 15 citations
THE GENIUS OF KURT LEWIN*
1947 • 14 citations
The effect of instructions to organize for good and poor learners
1983 • 12 citations
Ten Ways of Helping Young Children Gifted in Creative Writing and Speech
1962 • 11 citations
Trends and Research Questions in
1979 • 11 citations
Procedural networks and production systems in adaptive diagnosis
1980 • 10 citations
Freedom and Play: Catalysts for Creativity
1972 • 9 citations
Deleted Work
1955 • 0 citations