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Hogarth, Robin M.; Soyer, Emre – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Recently, researchers have investigated differences in decision making based on description and experience. We address the issue of when experience-based judgments of probability are more accurate than are those based on description. If description is well understood ("transparent") and experience is misleading ("wicked"), it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, College Students, Adults
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Maasz, Juergen; Siller, Hans-Stefan – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2010
A lot of people risk money with bets on sport events or other events. Bookkeepers that offer such bets earn a lot of money. We are making a proposal (more exactly: a concept for a part of a basic mathematics course) for learning mathematics behind the screen (internet bets are very popular). Learners should organize a "sports event"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Games, Probability
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French, Robert M.; Addyman, Caspar; Mareschal, Denis – Psychological Review, 2011
Individuals of all ages extract structure from the sequences of patterns they encounter in their environment, an ability that is at the very heart of cognition. Exactly what underlies this ability has been the subject of much debate over the years. A novel mechanism, implicit chunk recognition (ICR), is proposed for sequence segmentation and chunk…
Descriptors: Infants, Probability, Learning Processes, Pattern Recognition