Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:41:58 BST CiteULike: acslab strategies http://www.citeulike.org/user/acslab/tag/strategies CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/acslab/article/2624420 <i>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Vol. 25, No. 2. (1 March 1999), pp. 428-446.</i><br /><br />Participants examined sets of apartments described along 4 dimensions. Attribute values were manipulated to provide a way to infer strategy from response patterns. Experiment 1 established baseline behavior in unconstrained search, whereas Experiments 2–4 constrained participants to search either by alternative or by dimension. Dimensionwise presentation resulted in higher accuracy and reduced looking times. In 3-alternative choice, there was no evidence that strategy use depended on constraint condition. Evidence for possible strategy differences across constraint conditions was found when either multiple judgments rather than a single choice had to be made or the number of alternatives was increased to 5. These results supported features of the adaptive decision maker hypothesis (J. W. Payne, J. R. Bettman, & E. J. Johnson, 1988) but suggested that strategy use is not always strongly linked to acquisition pattern. Information Presentation Constraints and the Adaptive Decision Maker Hypothesis Stuart Senter Douglas Wedell doi:10.1037/0278-7393.25.2.428 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Vol. 25, No. 2. (1 March 1999), pp. 428-446. 2008-04-02T20:44:15-00:00 1999 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 25 2 428 446 adaptive decision-making strategies