Recency and primacy in causal judgments: Effects of probe question and context switch on latent inhibition and extinction

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1087-1093

  Glautier, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT INHIBITION; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FOOD POISONING; FRUIT; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; VEGETABLES;

EID: 54949106939     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.6.1087     Document Type: Article

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