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RECENCY IN TWO‐CHOICE GUESSING TASKS
Author(s) -
DALE H. C. A.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1965.tb00941.x
Subject(s) - psychology , simple (philosophy) , constant (computer programming) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , programming language
It has been asserted that negative recency effects are found only in simple tasks where the alternatives remain constant from trial to trial. The experiments reported show that, with alternatives varying from trial to trial under conditions where a simple, obvious rule appears to exist relating the correct alternative to a clue, positive recency is found. But, under conditions where the choice lies between varying alternatives which come from two simple categories, negative recency predominates.