Induction with uncertain categories: When do people consider the category alternatives?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 730-743

  Hayes, Brett K ^a   Newell, Ben R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL STUDENT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 70349209226     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.6.730     Document Type: Article

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