Does imitation benefit cue order learning?

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 307-320

  Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^a,b   Takezawa, Masanori ^a,c   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cue learning; Heuristics; Imitate the best; Imitate the majority; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649528638     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.5.307     Document Type: Article

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