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Direct linkWallsten, Thomas S.; Pleskac, Timothy J.; Lejuez, C. W. – Psychological Review, 2005
This article models the cognitive processes underlying learning and sequential choice in a risk-taking task for the purposes of understanding how they occur in this moderately complex environment and how behavior in it relates to self-reported real-world risk taking. The best stochastic model assumes that participants incorrectly treat outcome…
Descriptors: Modeling (Psychology), Probability, Cognitive Processes, Adolescents
