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    "pk": 33074,
    "title": "Making Heads or Tails out of Selecting Problem-Solving Strategies",
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    "abstract": "When solvers have more than one strategy available for a \ngiven problem, they must make a selection. As they select \nand use different strategies, solvers can learn the strengths \nand weaknesses of each. W e study how solvers learn about \nthe relative success rates of two strategies in the Building \nSticks Task and what influence this learning has on later \nstrategy selections. A theory of how people learn from and \nmake such selections in an adaptive way is part of the ACT-R \narchitecture (Anderson, 1993). W e develop a computational \nmodel within ACT- R that predicts individual subjects' \nselections based on their histories of success and failure. The \nmodel fits the selection behavior of two subgroups of \nsubjects: those who select each strategy according to its \nprobability of success and those who select the more \nsuccessful strategy exclusively. W e relate these results to \nprobability matching, a robust finding in the probability?learning literature that occurs when people select a response \n(e.g., guess heads vs. tails) a proportion of the time equal to \nthe probability that the corresponding event occurs (e.g., the \ncoin comes up heads vs. tails).",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "17",
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        {
            "first_name": "Marsha",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Lovett",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Anderson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1995-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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