Outcome predictability biases learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Griffiths, Oren ^a   Mitchell, Chris J ^b   Bethmont, Anna ^a   Lovibond, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Attention; Causal models; Induction; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84989259996     PISSN: 23298456     EISSN: 23298464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xan0000042     Document Type: Article

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