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Schulze, Christin; van Ravenzwaaij, Don; Newell, Ben R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Learning to choose adaptively when faced with uncertain and variable outcomes is a central challenge for decision makers. This study examines repeated choice in dynamic probability learning tasks in which outcome probabilities changed either as a function of the choices participants made or independently of those choices. This presence/absence of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Rewards, Persistence, Probability
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Kopanidis, Foula Zografina; Shaw, Michael John – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: Educational institutions are caught between increasing their offer rates and attracting and retaining those prospective students who are most suited to course completion. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the influence of demographic and psychological constructs on students' preferences when choosing to study in a particular…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Course Selection (Students), Preferences, Models