High cognitive flexibility learners identify the correct probabilistic rule more often than low flexibility learners¶

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q3 i? A significantly higher proportion of the high flexibility group (69.2%) than the low flexibility group (44.4%) identified the correct rule. → Feng X 2020

Evidence¶

Feng X 2020¶

Feng X, Perceval GJ, Feng W and Feng C (2020) High Cognitive Flexibility Learners Perform Better in Probabilistic Rule Learning. Front. Psychol. 11:415. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00415

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Rule-identification questionnaire results from the coin-searching experiment with 39 high and 37 low flexibility participants. The high group's rule discovery rate was "significantly higher than that in low flexibility group" (χ2 = 10.3, df = 1, p = 0.001).

"27 out of 39 (69.2%) participants in the high flexibility group and 12 out of 37 (44.4%) participants in the low flexibility group identified the correct rule ( Figure 4 ). Pearson Chi-square test showed that the number of rule discoverers in the high group was significantly higher than that in low flexibility group [ χ2 = 10.3, df = 1, p = 0.001]."

Discussion¶

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