Concurrent performance in a three-alternative choice situation: Response allocation in a Rock/Paper/Scissors game

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-172

  Kangas, Brian D ^a   Berry, Meredith S ^a   Cassidy, Rachel N ^a   Dallery, Jesse ^a   Vaidya, Manish ^b   Hackenberg, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Game play; Generalized matching law; Humans; Maximization; Probability matching; Three concurrent choice

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 68549086868     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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