When Gluck and Bower Tested Their Participants' Ability to Generalize

question 89

Multiple Choice

When Gluck and Bower tested their participants' ability to generalize what they had learned from categorizing symptoms and diseases,they found that participants:

• A)had trouble taking into account the relative rates of the diseases.
• B)were quite good in their ability to generalize.
• C)followed the predictions of the Rescorla-Wagner model.
• D)followed the predictions of Bayesian statistics.

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