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Peer reviewedGranberg, Donald; Brown, Thad A. – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995
Examines people's behavior in the Monty Hall Dilemma (MHD), in which a person must make two decisions to win a prize. In a series of five studies, found that people misapprehend probabilities in the MHD. Discusses the MHD's relation to illusion of control, belief perseverance, and the status quo bias. (RJM)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedEstes, William K. – Psychological Review, 1994
This essay introduces a series of studies developing a statistical theory of elementary learning processes. An attempt is made to derive relations among commonly used measures of behavior and quantitative expressions describing simple learning phenomena. Laws of the theory state probability relations between momentary changes in behavioral and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Change, Conditioning
