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Length of the postfeedback interval and learning of probabilistic inference tasks
Author(s) -
BREHMER BERNDT,
KUYLENSTIERNA JAN
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.tb00695.x
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , interval (graph theory) , construct (python library) , probabilistic logic , inference , cognitive psychology , statistics , interval data , social psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , computer science , combinatorics , management , economics , data envelopment analysis , programming language
Learning of negative linear and J‐shaped cue‐criterion relations in single‐cue learning tasks was studied in an experiment which varied the length of the postfeedback interval. Contrary to the predictions from a hypothesis construction model assuming that subjects construct hypotheses from the data provided by the task, there was no effect of the postfeedback interval. The results were interpreted to mean that the subjects' constructions are based on elements stored in memory, rather than on data from the task.