Decision Making and Learning While Taking Sequential Risks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 167-185

  Pleskac, Timothy J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; cognitive psychometrics; individual differences; learning; risk taking

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BAYES THEOREM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RISK-TAKING; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 38649093987     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.167     Document Type: Article

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