Probability Learning: Contingent-Event Schedules with Lags
Richard B. Millward, Arthur S. Reber · The American Journal of Psychology · 1972
The importance of memory for the immediately preceding sequence of events has been a recurrent theme in the two-choice prediction experiment. The degree to which subjects attend to preceding events, the manner in which they process the information contained in the event sequence, and the role that the past events play in determining prediction responses are all issues of considerable theoretical importance. There have been three basic ways to investigate the dependency between preceding events and prediction responses. The simplest and most indirect is statistical, as in the analyses of event patterns and recency curves (changes in response proportions as a function of the length