Type of learning task impacts performance and strategy selection in decision making

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-240

  Pachur, Thorsten ^a   Olsson, Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparison; Decision making; Exemplar processing; Feedback; Inference; Learning; Strategy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE;

ADULT; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 84860649900     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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