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THE IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGY IN A COMPLEX LEARNING TASK
Author(s) -
Lindahl MajBritt
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1964.tb01424.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , cognition , cognitive psychology , social psychology , computer science , machine learning , management , neuroscience , economics , programming language
The predictive value of cognitive strategies on behaviour was investigated in a classification task. This was similar to usual concept learning tasks but a possibility to deductive solution was provided together with the customary possibility to inductive solution. The results showed that improvement was dependent on the efficiency of the strategy. The theoretical interpretation of the results was that the learning of complex tasks depends upon hypothesis testing activity in the subject rather than on automatic S‐R‐connections.