{"pk":32332,"title":"General and Specific Expertise in Scientific Reasoning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous research on scientific reasoning has shown that it involves a diverse set of skills. Yet, little is known about generality of those skills, an important issue to theories of expertise and to attempts to automate scientific reasoning skills. We present a study examining what kinds of skills psychologists actually use in designing and interpreting experiments. The results suggest: 1) that psychologists use many domain-general skills in their experimentation; 2) that bright and motivated undergraduates are missing many of these skills; 3) some domain-general skills are not specific to only scientists; and 4) some domain-specific skills can be acquired with minimal domain-experience.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2b3795m3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christian","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Schunn","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"R.","last_name":"Anderson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1997-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32332/galley/23397/download/"}]}