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Rosedahl, Luke A.; Ashby, F. Gregory – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In rule-based (RB) category-learning tasks, the optimal strategy is a simple explicit rule, whereas in information-integration (II) tasks, the optimal strategy is impossible to describe verbally. This study investigates the effects of two different category properties on learning difficulty in category learning tasks--namely, linear separability…
Descriptors: Classification, Learning, College Students, Difficulty Level
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Wu, Rachel; Gopnik, Alison; Richardson, Daniel C.; Kirkham, Natasha Z. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
In laboratory experiments, infants are sensitive to patterns of visual features that co-occur (e.g., Fiser & Aslin, 2002). Once infants learn the statistical regularities, however, what do they do with that knowledge? Moreover, which patterns do infants learn in the cluttered world outside of the laboratory? Across 4 experiments, we show that…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Inferences, Laboratory Experiments