The role of age and prior beliefs in contingency judgment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 875-884

  Mutter, Sharon A ^a   Strain, Laura M ^a,b   Plumlee, Leslie F ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34548637912     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193462     Document Type: Article

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