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Effect of practice on utilization of nonlinear rules in inference tasks
Author(s) -
BREHMER BERNDT
Publication year - 1979
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.1467-9450.1979.tb00694.x
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , inference , affect (linguistics) , interference (communication) , transfer (computing) , cognitive psychology , practice effect , test (biology) , social psychology , artificial intelligence , communication , computer science , computer network , paleontology , channel (broadcasting) , management , parallel computing , economics , biology
The effects of practice on subjects' ability to use nonlinear rules was investigated in five experiments. The first experiment showed that performance and transfer varied with the amount of practice given, the second that having to produce overt responses in training did not lead to better performance or transfer. The third and fourth experiment tested the hypothesis that the low transfer effects were due to interference, but since neither switching the order of test tasks nor an interpolated task affected performance, the hypothesis was rejected. The fifth experiment, finally, showed that practice decreased the nonsystematic error in the subjects' response systems, but did not affect the systematic features.