Why people underestimate y when extrapolating in linear functions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1019-1030

  Kwantes, Peter J ^a   Neal, Andrew ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extrapolation; Function learning; Interpolation; Models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33748435778     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.1019     Document Type: Article

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