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focus gambling

in a task that requires the generation of hypotheses about what combination of features defines a concept, a strategy in which the participant changes more than one feature from one hypothesis to the next. Focus gambling contrasts with the more conservative strategy of varying one feature at a time to determine its relevance to the concept. See concept-discovery task.

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weak central coherence

weak central coherence

see central coherence theory.