Lagdano, D.A. and Newell, B. and Kahan, S. and Shanks, D.R. (2006) Insight and strategy in multiple cue learning. (ELSE Working Papers 197). ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution: London, UK.
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Abstract
In multiple-cue learning (also known as probabilistic category learning) people acquire information about cue-outcome relations and combine these into predictions or judgments. Previous studies claim that people can achieve high levels of performance without explicit knowledge of the task structure or insight into their own judgment policies. It has also been argued that people use a variety of suboptimal strategies to solve such tasks. In three experiments we re-examined these conclusions by introducing novel measures of task knowledge and self-insight, and using ‘rolling regression’ methods to analyze individual learning. Participants successfully learned a four-cue probabilistic environment and showed accurate knowledge of both the task structure and their own judgment processes. Learning analyses suggested that the apparent use of suboptimal strategies emerges from the incremental tracking of statistical contingencies in the environment.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Insight and strategy in multiple cue learning |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://else.econ.ucl.ac.uk/newweb/papers.php#2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Please see http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/11718/ for a version published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology General |
| Keywords: | Multiple cue learning, self-insight, strategy, rolling regression, implicit vs. explicit learning |
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