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Smith, Alastair D.; Hood, Bruce M.; Gilchrist, Iain D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Finding an object in our environment is an important human ability that also represents a critical component of human foraging behavior. One type of information that aids efficient large-scale search is the likelihood of the object being in one location over another. In this study we investigated the conditions under which individuals respond to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Probability, Search Strategies, Spatial Ability
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Nilsson, Hakan; Olsson, Henrik; Juslin, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The prominent cognitive theories of probability judgment were primarily developed to explain cognitive biases rather than to account for the cognitive processes in probability judgment. In this article the authors compare 3 major theories of the processes and representations in probability judgment: the representativeness heuristic, implemented as…
Descriptors: Probability, Epistemology, Evaluative Thinking, Cognitive Processes