The Development of a General Associative Learning Account of Skill Acquisition in a Relative Arrival-Time Judgment Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 938-959

  Loft, Shayne ^a   Neal, Andrew ^a   Humphreys, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

associative learning; conflict detection; context; memory; relative arrival time judgment

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

APTITUDE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548816447     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.4.938     Document Type: Article

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