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Direct linkLagnado, David A.; Newell, Ben R.; Kahan, Steven; Shanks, David R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
In multiple-cue learning (also known as probabilistic category learning) people acquire information about cue-outcome relations and combine these into predictions or judgments. Previous researchers claimed that people can achieve high levels of performance without explicit knowledge of the task structure or insight into their own judgment…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cues, Performance, Prediction
Agran, Martin; And Others – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1986
The study examined effects of a self-instructional training package on the job-task sequencing, task completion, and unnecessary task repetition of four mentally retarded females (ages 18-20) employed as housekeeping and food service trainees in a hospital. Among results were increased job-task sequencing and decreased task repetition for all…
Descriptors: Cues, Females, Food Service, Housekeepers
