How Do People Learn to Allocate Resources? Comparing Two Learning Theories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1066-1081

  Rieskamp, Jörg ^a,b   Busemeyer, Jerome R ^a   Laine, Tei ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0345581735     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.6.1066     Document Type: Article

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