Departures from optimal stopping in an anagram task

DOI10.1016/0022-2496(91)90033-PMaRDI QIDQ753735zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Baron, Peter C. Badgio, Yaacov Ritov

Publication date 1991

Published in Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2496(91)90033-p

zbMATH Keywords

anagram problemimpulsivenessoptimum stopping pointovercautiousnessspeed-accuracy tradeoff function for problem-solving tasks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurement and performance in psychology (91E45)

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