Maximizing and role of correction method in probability learning in chicks.

Fischer, Gloria J.

doi:10.1037/h0032844

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“…Similarly, the details of the reinforcement procedure affect behaviour in animal experiments: experiments using guidance or correction procedures where, following incorrect responses, the correct response is highlighted and the animal continues responding until the correct response and the reward is provided, result in less maximising behaviour. This difference is attributed 3 , 52 to greater task difficulty in guidance/correction reinforcement paradigms where the trial boundaries are more opaque; however, it could equally be due to a reduced reward for maximising when the reward will eventually be obtained anyway, and the absence of the equivalent manipulations with humans makes this finding difficult to interpret.…”

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Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates

Saldana

Claidière

Fagot

et al. 2022

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Probability matching has long been taken as a prime example of irrational behaviour in human decision making; however, its nature and uniqueness in the animal world is still much debated. In this paper we report a set of four preregistered experiments testing adult humans and Guinea baboons on matched probability learning tasks, manipulating task complexity (binary or ternary prediction tasks) and reinforcement procedures (with and without corrective feedback). Our findings suggest that probability matching behaviour within primate species is restricted to humans and the simplest possible binary prediction tasks; utility-maximising is seen in more complex tasks for humans as pattern-search becomes more effortful, and we observe it across the board in baboons, altogether suggesting that it is a cognitively less demanding strategy. These results provide further evidence that neither human nor non-human primates default to probability matching; however, unlike other primates, adult humans probability match when the cost of pattern search is low.

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Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates

Saldana

Claidière

Fagot

et al. 2022

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Limited evidence for probability matching as a strategy in probability learning tasks

Montag

2021

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

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Time, rate, and conditioning.

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Gibbon²

2000

Psychological Review

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The authors draw together and develop previous timing models for a broad range of conditioning phenomena to reveal their common conceptual foundations: First, conditioning depends on the learning of the temporal intervals between events and the reciprocals of these intervals, the rates of event occurrence. Second, remembered intervals and rates translate into observed behavior through decision processes whose structure is adapted to noise in the decision variables. The noise and the uncertainties consequent on it have both subjective and objective origins. A third feature of these models is their timescale invariance, which the authors argue is a very important property evident in the available experimental data. This conceptual framework is similar to the psychophysical conceptual framework in which contemporary models of sensory processing are rooted. The authors contrast it with the associative conceptual framework.

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Maximizing and role of correction method in probability learning in chicks.

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates

Probability matching is not the default decision making strategy in human and non-human primates

Limited evidence for probability matching as a strategy in probability learning tasks

Time, rate, and conditioning.

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