| Giving up problem solving. | |
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PMID: 21264635 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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How do people decide to abandon a problem? Participants were presented with unsolvable water jar problems, having been accurately informed of the prior probability of solvability. Across three experiments, we discovered effects of prior probability of solvability and of problem size (number of distinct problem states) on measures of effort and confidence. If a problem is more likely to be solvable and allows more problem states, a problem solver spends longer trying to solve the problem. Giving-up decisions are informed by the same judgments of probability of success and costs of solution that inform move-choice in a rational model of problem solving. |
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Authors:
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Stephen J Payne; Geoffrey B Duggan |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-1-11 |
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Title: Memory & cognition Volume: - ISSN: 1532-5946 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Jan |
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Created Date: 2011-1-25 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0357443 Medline TA: Mem Cognit Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, s.j.payne@bath.ac.uk. |
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