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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 54, 2001 - Issue 2
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Interference with judgements of control and learning as a result of prior exposure to controllable and uncontrollable feedback during concept-learning tasks

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Pages 167-183 | Published online: 22 Oct 2010

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