Interference with judgements of control and learning as a result of prior exposure to controllable and uncontrollable feedback during concept-learning tasks

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 167-183

  Reed, Phil ^a   Frasquillo, Frank ^a   Colkin, Clare ^a   Liemann, Victoria ^a   Colbert, Susie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JUDGMENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION;

EID: 0035345714     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990042000155     Document Type: Article

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