Feedforward and Feedback in Multiple Cue Probability Learning -- Facilitating or Debilitating.

Abstract

Three levels of feedforward information and five levels of feedback information were administered during a 200 two-cue trial experiment to 150 subjects. The feedforward information consisted of instructions on correlative relationships and cue validities. The feedback information consisted of outcome feedback presented at different rates. Results indicated that: (a) subjects provided with a psychologically relevant MCPL setting with labeled cues can perform at a very high level of proficiency without feedforward or feedback information, (b) statistically naive subjects are unable to use feedforward information to improve their performance, (c) whether subject performance increases or decreases when provided with feedback information depends upon the performance index used (i.e., r sub a and R sub s decrease, while r sub m increases), and (d) withdrawal of feedback generally has little effect upon subject performance. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA072593

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People

  • William H. Hendrix

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Consistency
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Experimental Design
  • Feedback
  • Information Science
  • Instructions
  • Learning
  • Probability
  • Schools
  • Standards
  • Terminals
  • United States
  • Universities
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.