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Learning to Be Competent Learning to Be Competent

The thesis presents a new approach for the study of competent cognitive behavior. The approach, learning to be competent, suggests that learning phenomena and the competencies attributed to intelligence should be studied together. Instead of requiring omniscience or otherwise optimal performance, we claim that the tasks and success criteria should be de ned behaviorally; that is, a system is co...

Learning How to Swim and Improving Self-Efficacy: Physical Education Needs to be Taken More Seriously

Learning How to Swim and Improving Self-Efficacy: Physical Education Needs to be Taken More Seriously M. Taslimi P. Iraannejaad, Ph.D. Z. Lebaadi, Ph.D. Physical education is not just for improving the functions and well-being of the body, as it can help with the improvement of the psychological functions as well. A physical, and enjoyable, activity such as swimming, as a p...

Learning to be Credible

Learning to be prepared

Behavioral economics provides several motivations for the common observation that agents appear somewhat unwilling to deviate from recent choices. More recent choices can be more salient than other choices, or more readily available in the agent’s mind. Alternatively, agents may have formed habits, or use rules of thumb. This paper provides discrete-time adjustment processes for strategic games...

Learning to be fair

We study the process of equilibrium selection in games when players have "sophisticated" preferences of the type discussed, among others, by Rabin [16] and Segal and Sobel [17]. To this end, we employ standard noisy version of the best response dynamics. We obtain several results concerning some popular games such as the Prisoner's Dilemma, the Battle of the Sexes and the Dictator Game. For exa...