Choosing strategy

“The assumption that people possess a repertoire of strategies to solve the inference problems they face has been raised repeatedly. However, a computational model specifying how people select strategies from their repertoire is still lacking. The proposed strategy selection learning (SSL) theory predicts a strategy selection process on the basis of reinforcement learning. The theory assumes that individuals develop subjective expectations for the strategies they have and select strategies proportional to their expectations, which are then updated on the basis of subsequent experience. In Rieskamp, J. and Otto, P. E. ‘SSL: A Theory of How People Learn to Select Strategies”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 135(2), May 2006, 207-236.