Missing information in multiple-cue probability learning

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Title
Missing information in multiple-cue probability learning
Journal
Memory and Cognition
Author(s)
White  C. M., Koehler  D. J.
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Published
Issued date
2004
Volume
32
Number
6
Pages
1007-1018
Abstract
In a multiple-cue probability learning task, participants learned to use six discrete symptoms (i.e., cues) to diagnose which of three possible flu strains a hypothetical patient suffered from. For some patients, information regarding the status of certain symptoms was not available. Various possible ways in which the missing cue information might be processed were distinguished and tested in a series of three experiments (Ns = 80, 109, and 61). The results suggest that the judged probability of the outcome variable (i.e., flu strain) was assessed by "filling in" the missing cue information with a mean value based on previous observations. The predictions of other methods of processing missing cue information are inconsistent with the data.
Keywords
missing information, probability judgment, subjective probability, support theory, multiple-cue probability learning
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