TY - JOUR TI - Expert and Novice Performance in Solving Physics Problems AU - Jill Larkin AU - John McDermott AU - Dorothea P. Simon AU - Herbert A. Simon PY - 1980 JO - Science DO - 10.1126/science.208.4450.1335 UR - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.208.4450.1335 AB - Although a sizable body of knowledge is prerequisite to expert skill, that knowledge must be indexed by large numbers of patterns that, on recognition, guide the expert in a fraction of a second to relevant parts of the knowledge store. The knowledge forms complex schemata that can guide a problem's interpretation and solution and that constitute a large part of what we call physical intuition. ER -