The Predictive Effect of Cognitive Flexibility and Probability Knowledge on Probability Category Learning

We investigated the predictive effects of learners’ cognitive flexibility and probability knowledge on category learning. A number-letter switch task was to measure flexibility, a self-designed questionnaire estimate knowledge, two learning tasks (with cues: Coin searching task; no cue: Picture selection task) were analyzed. The regression analysis showed that in coin task, alone can predict whether rules had acquired In picture search both factors predicted rule acquisition.