title: Constructivist coding: learning from selective feedback.
abstract: Although much learning in real-life environments relies on highly selective feedback about outcomes, virtually all cognitive models of learning, judgment, and categorization assume complete and representative feedback. We investigated empirically the effect of selective feedback on decision making and how people code experience with selective feedback. The results showed that, in contrast to a commonly raised concern, performance was not impaired following learning with selective and biased feedback. Furthermore, even in a simple decision task, the experience that people acquired was not a mere recording of the observed outcomes, but rather a reconstruction from general task knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. ebba.elwin@psyk.uu.se
authors.forename: Ebba
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Elwin
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Juslin
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Olsson
authors.forename: Tommy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Enkvist
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D003657:Decision Making; D036262:Empirical Research; D005246:Feedback; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods