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A Cognitive Probability Model for Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

John E. Overall
John E. Overall*
Affiliation:
Veterans Administration and Johns Hopkins University
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Abstract

A quantitative model for the behavior of albino rats in choice-making situations is presented. The model, which is based upon a cognitive conceptualization of the learning process, is shown to yield predictions which are equivalent to those produced by the linear operator stochastic models at the asymptotic limit but which differ from these during early trials in the learning situation.

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Psychometrika , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1960 , pp. 159 - 172
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Copyright © 1960 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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This work was done while the author was a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow in the Psychometric Laboratory of the University of North Carolina. The author is indebted to Dr. Lyle V. Jones, Director of the Psychometric Laboratory, for considerable time and effort in reading and criticizing early drafts of the manuscript. The help of Mr. Douglas K. Spiegel in criticizing an early draft is also gratefully acknowledged.

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