Journal article
Assessment of an Information Integration Account of Contingency Judgment With Examination of Subjective Cell Importance and Method of Information Presentation
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.19(6), pp.1363-1386
11/1993
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.19.6.1363
Abstract
Two experiments used a rich and systematic set of noncontingent problems to examine humans' ability to detect the absence of an inter-event relation. Each found that subjects who used nonnormative strategies were quite inaccurate in judging some types of noncontingent problems. Group data indicated that subjects used the 2 × 2 information in the order Cell A > Cell B > Cell C > Cell D; individual subject data indicated that subjects considered the information in Cell A to be most important, that in Cell D to be least important, and that in Cells B and C to be of intermediate importance. Trial-by-trial presentation led to less accurate contingency judgments and to more uneven use of 2 × 2 cell information than did summary-table presentation. Finally, the judgment processes of about 70% and 80%, respectively, of nonnormative strategy users under trial-by-trial and summary-table procedures could be accounted for by an averaging model.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessment of an Information Integration Account of Contingency Judgment With Examination of Subjective Cell Importance and Method of Information Presentation
- Creators
- Shu-Fang Kao - Department of Psychology, University of IowaEdward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.19(6), pp.1363-1386
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0278-7393.19.6.1363
- ISSN
- 0278-7393
- eISSN
- 1939-1285
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1993
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984070126502771
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