Dual space search during scientific reasoning
David Klahr,Kevin Dunbar +1 more
TL;DR: A general model of Scientific Discovery as Dual Search (SDDS) is presented that shows how search in two problem spaces (an hypothesis space and an experiment space) shapes hypothesis generation, experimental design, and the evaluation of hypotheses.
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About: This article is published in Cognitive Science. The article was published on 01 Jan 1988. and is currently open access.
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