Interference with judgments of control and attentional shift as a result of prior exposure to controllable and uncontrollable feedback

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-241

  Reed, Phil ^a   Antonova, Marina ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Humans; Judgement of control; Learned helplessness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249019611     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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