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Ratcliff, Roger; Smith, Philip L. – Psychological Review, 2004
The authors evaluated 4 sequential sampling models for 2-choice decisions--the Wiener diffusion, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) diffusion, accumulator, and Poisson counter models--by fitting them to the response time (RT) distributions and accuracy data from 3 experiments. Each of the models was augmented with assumptions of variability across trials in…
Descriptors: Sampling, Reaction Time, Evaluation Criteria, Models
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Greeno, James G. – Psychological Review, 1976
Although partially specified goals are sometimes thought to result from the uncertainties of ill-structured problems, analysis of human problem solving shows that indefinite goals are used in solving problems that are otherwise well structured. The example studied is taken from plane geometry and involves proving that two triangles are congruent.…
Descriptors: Diagrams, Evaluation Criteria, Models, Objectives
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Thomas, Ewart A. C.; Hogue, Anthony – Psychological Review, 1976
Discusses and applies to data models of juror decision making that make explicit what has been implicit in most previous theorizing about jury behavior--namely, a decision criterion and a distribution of apparent weight of evidence. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Charts, Confidence Testing, Court Litigation, Decision Making