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Krefeld-Schwalb, Antonia; Donkin, Chris; Newell, Ben R.; Scheibehenne, Benjamin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Past research indicates that individuals respond adaptively to contextual factors in multiattribute choice tasks. Yet it remains unclear how this adaptation is cognitively governed. In this article, empirically testable implementations of two prominent competing theoretical frameworks are developed and compared across two multiattribute choice…
Descriptors: Models, Cues, Probability, Experiments
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Burns, Matthew K.; Taylor, Crystal N.; Warmbold-Brann, Kristy L.; Preast, June L.; Hosp, John L.; Ford, Jeremy W. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
Intervention researchers often use curriculum-based measurement of reading fluency (CBM-R) with a brief experimental analysis (BEA) to identify an effective intervention for individual students. The current study synthesized data from 22 studies that used CBM-R data within a BEA by computing the standard error of measure (SEM) for the median data…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Decision Making, Reading Fluency, Curriculum Based Assessment
Rinne, Luke Frederick – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Incorporating relevant numerical information into decision-making is a fundamental and important aspect of numeracy. However, the process through which weight is assigned to particular numerical values is not well understood. The central theory proposed in this dissertation is that the weight assigned to numerical information may be conceptualized…
Descriptors: Cues, Intervals, Numeracy, Probability
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Townsend, James T.; Altieri, Nicholas – Psychological Review, 2012
Measures of human efficiency under increases in mental workload or attentional limitations are vital in studying human perception, cognition, and action. Assays of efficiency as workload changes have typically been confined to either reaction times (RTs) or accuracy alone. Within the realm of RTs, a nonparametric measure called the "workload…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Measures (Individuals), Reaction Time, Decision Making
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Loomes, Graham – Psychological Review, 2010
This article develops a parsimonious descriptive model of individual choice and valuation in the kinds of experiments that constitute a substantial part of the literature relating to decision making under risk and uncertainty. It suggests that many of the best known "regularities" observed in those experiments may arise from a tendency for…
Descriptors: Probability, Models, Experiments, Observation
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Smith, Rebekah E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Einstein et al. (2005) predicted no cost to an ongoing task when a prospective memory task met certain criteria. Smith, Hunt, McVay, and McConnell (2007) used prospective memory tasks that met these criteria and found a cost to the ongoing task, contrary to Einstein et al.'s prediction. Einstein and McDaniel (2010) correctly noted that there are…
Descriptors: Memory, Memorization, Experiments, College Students
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Harbison, J. Isaiah; Dougherty, Michael R.; Davelaar, Eddy J.; Fayyad, Basma – Cognition, 2009
Nearly every memory retrieval episode ends with a decision to terminate memory search. Yet, no research has investigated whether these search termination decisions are systematic, let alone whether they are made consistent with a particular rule. In the present paper, we used a modified free-recall paradigm to examine the decision to terminate…
Descriptors: Prediction, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Models
Fox, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This experiment examined decisions made by teachers using only status data with those made by teachers using growth and status data. Middle school math teachers from five schools within a single school division located in Virginia participated in the study. Participants were randomly assigned to either the status only or growth and status group.…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, High Achievement, Mathematics Teachers, Decision Making
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Wurtz, Keith – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The increasing demand of constituents to conduct analyses in order to help inform the decision-making process has led to the need for Institutional Research (IR) guidelines for community college educators. One method of maintaining the quality of research conducted by IR staff is to include professional development about ethics. This article…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Research, Evaluators, Experiments
Hellar, David Benjamin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The modern military command center is a hybrid system of computer automated surveillance and human oriented decision making. In these distributed cognition systems, data overload refers simultaneously to the glut of raw data processed by information technology systems and the dearth of actionable knowledge useful to human decision makers.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Information Technology, Classification, Engineering
Tidwell, Owen Alan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Given the nature of the valuation task environment appraisers are often made aware of previous value opinions rendered by appraisers, commonly in the form of an historic appraisal. And, because an appraisal task involves the rendering of market value, a hypothetical, unobservable construct based on probabilities, direct feedback against this…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Value Judgment, Decision Making, Heuristics
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Barnes, Tiffany; Stamper, John – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
In building intelligent tutoring systems, it is critical to be able to understand and diagnose student responses in interactive problem solving. However, building this understanding into a computer-based intelligent tutor is a time-intensive process usually conducted by subject experts. Much of this time is spent in building production rules that…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Logical Thinking, Tutors, Probability
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Yovits, M. C.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981
The third of a series, this article describes prototype experiments which place human decision makers in an interactive decision-making situation, presents results typical of those thus far observed in the prototype experiments, and describes preliminary analysis of the data. Three references are listed. (FM)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Experiments, Information Theory
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Trafimow, David; Rice, Stephen – Psychological Review, 2008
People can use a variety of different strategies to perform tasks and these strategies all have two characteristics in common. First, they can be evaluated in comparison with either an absolute or a relative standard. Second, they can be used at varying levels of consistency. In the present article, the authors develop a general theory of task…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Performance, Scores, Performance Factors
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Hamilton, David L.; Gifford, Robert K. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1976
Illusory correlation refers to an erroneous inference a person makes about the relationship between two categories of events. The present findings demonstrate that distortions in judgment can result from the cognitive mechanisms involved in processing information about co-occurring events, at least when the various events co-occur with…
Descriptors: Correlation, Decision Making, Experiments, Interpersonal Relationship
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