Giving up problem solving

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 902-913

  Payne, Stephen J ^a   Duggan, Geoffrey B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Information foraging; Problem solving; Stopping rules

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REINFORCEMENT;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 80055033775     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0068-6     Document Type: Article

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