decision experiment
1Decision cycle — refers to the continual use of mental and physical processes by an entity to reach and implement decisions. Within the United States military, a theory of an Observe–Orient–Decide–Act (OODA) loop has been advocated by Colonel John Boyd. In… …
2decision theory — Statistics. the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and assigning numerical consequences to the outcome. [1960 65] * * * In statistics and related subfields of philosophy, the theory and method of… …
3Lexical decision task — The lexical decision task is a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments. The basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords. Although versions of the task had been used by… …
4Thought experiment — A thought experiment (from the German Gedankenexperiment ) is a proposal for an experiment that would test a hypothesis or theory but cannot actually be performed due to practical limitations; instead its purpose is to explore the potential… …
5Natural experiment — A natural experiment is an observational study in which the assignment of treatments to subjects has been haphazard: That is, the assignment of treatments has been made by nature , but not by experimenters. Thus, a natural experiment is not a… …
6Violinist (thought experiment) — The Violinist is a famous thought experiment first posed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971.The famous violinist thought experiment The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes her thought experiment as follows::Judith Jarvis Thomson provided… …
7Milgram experiment — For Milgram s other well known experiment, see Small world experiment. The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the latter believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an… …
8Wheeler's delayed choice experiment — Quantum mechanics Uncertainty principle …
9The Sontaran Experiment — 077 – The Sontaran Experiment Doctor Who serial Styre examines the results of Experiment 5: Fluid deprivation Cast …
10Quantum eraser experiment — In physics, the quantum eraser experiment is a double slit experiment that demonstrates several laws of quantum mechanics, including wave particle duality, which seeks to explain certain wave and particle properties of matter, complementarity,… …
