Producing biased diagnoses with unambiguous stimuli: The importance of feature instantiations

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1416-1423

  Hannah, Samuel D ^a   Brooks, Lee R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorization; Concept formation; Feature processing; Informational features; Instantiated features; Unambiguous stimuli

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33750693959     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.6.1416     Document Type: Review

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