Learning disability and contraceptive decision-making

Learning disability and contraceptive decision-making.

Women's preferences for contraceptive counseling and decision making.

BACKGROUND Little is known about what women value in their interactions with family planning providers and in decision making about contraception. STUDY DESIGN We conducted semistructured interviews with 42 black, white and Latina patients. Transcripts were coded using modified grounded theory. RESULTS While women wanted control over the ultimate selection of a method, most also wanted thei...

Learning and Sequential Decision Making

Learning, Reward, and Decision Making.

In this review, we summarize findings supporting the existence of multiple behavioral strategies for controlling reward-related behavior, including a dichotomy between the goal-directed or model-based system and the habitual or model-free system in the domain of instrumental conditioning and a similar dichotomy in the realm of Pavlovian conditioning. We evaluate evidence from neuroscience suppo...

Active Learning for Decision-Making

This paper addresses focused information acquisition for predictive data mining. As businesses strive to cater to the preferences of individual consumers, they often employ predictive models to customize marketing efforts. Building accurate models requires information about consumer preferences that often is costly to acquire. Prior research has introduced many “active learning” policies for id...