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| Authors: | Linus J Dowell |
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| Institution: | 1. Texas A&2. M University , USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Two hundred high school and college students were paired to compete in two game abstracts to determine the effect of “game strategy” on winning two-person, zero-sum, finite strategy games involving a motor skill and to determine the effect of play experience on rational decision making. Subjects competed in eight series of ten plays for a total of 8,000 plays, under the following conditions: play vs. play, play-skill vs. play-skill, strategy-skill vs. play-skill, strategy vs. play, play-skill vs. strategy-skill, play vs. strategy, strategy vs. strategy, and strategy-skill vs. strategy-skill. Results indicate that “game strategy” contributes significantly to the winning of two-person, zero-sum, finite strategy games involving a motor skill and that rational decision making improves through experience. Within the limitations of this study it was concluded that play experience contributes to rational decision making in simple strategy games while “game strategy” is beneficial to winning complex strategy games. |
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