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Heitmann, Christina; Deutsch, Roland – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Sequential effects in conflict processing (postconflict slowing and conflict adaptation) have primarily been studied in stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) tasks. Moreover, results obtained in SRC paradigms are often proposed as a model of higher-level motivational conflicts. The authors present 3 experiments suggesting that motivational…
Descriptors: Ethics, Conflict, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Frey, Renato; Rieskamp, Jörg; Hertwig, Ralph – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
In nonmonotonic decision problems, the magnitude of outcomes can both increase and decrease over time depending on the state of the decision problem. These increases and decreases may occur repeatedly and result in a variety of possible outcome distributions. In many previously investigated sequential decision problems, in contrast, outcomes (or…
Descriptors: Risk, Learning Processes, Reinforcement, Decision Making
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Sprenger, Amber; Dougherty, Michael R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
We examined how decision makers generate and evaluate hypotheses when data are presented sequentially. In the first 2 experiments, participants learned the relationship between data and possible causes of the data in a virtual environment. Data were then presented iteratively, and participants either generated hypotheses they thought caused the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evidence, Sequential Approach, Cues