ASSESSMENT OF AN INFORMATION INTEGRATION ACCOUNT OF CONTINGENCY JUDGMENT WITH EXAMINATION OF SUBJECTIVE CELL IMPORTANCE AND METHOD OF INFORMATION PRESENTATION

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作者
KAO, SF [1 ]
WASSERMAN, EA [1 ]
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[1] UNIV IOWA,DEPT PSYCHOL,IOWA CITY,IA 52242
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10.1037/0278-7393.19.6.1363
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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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 non-normative strategies were quite inaccurate in judging some types of noncontingent problems. Group data indicated that subjects used the 2 X 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 x 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.
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页码:1363 / 1386
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