A Behavioral Assessment of the Weights Applied to Redundant Cues

A new procedure for determining the weights individuals apply to cues when making predictions was evaluated in this study. Thirty nine college students were separately given the opportunity to learn the degree to which five cues were redundant and valid predictors of a criterion variable. Each subject was then required, on any given trial, to select either all five cues or a subset of size one to four to use to make predictions. The subjects' selections of cues were assumed to be determined by the subjective weights assigned to the cues during the prediction task.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Cuqlock, Violet Grayson

• Psychology, Experimental

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8309931

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69622