Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition
Contributors: Juslin, Peter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780511344435
Description: This book proposes that environmental information samples are biased and cognitive processes are not.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I Introduction; 1 Taking the Interface between Mind and Environment Seriously; Part II the psychological law of large numbers; 2 Good Sampling, Distorted Views: The Perception of Variability; 3 Intuitive Judgments about Sample Size; 4 The Role of Information Sampling in Risky Choice; 5 Less Is More in Covariation Detection; title: Or Is It?; Part III Biased and Unbiased Judgments from Biased Samples; 6 Subjective Validity Judgments as an Index of Sensitivity to Sampling Bias.; title: 7 An Analysis of Structural Availability Biases, and a Brief Study8 Subjective Confidence and the Sampling of Knowledge; 9 Contingency Learning and Biased Group Impressions; 10 Mental Mechanisms: Speculations on Human Causal Learning and Reasoning; Part IV What Information Contents are Sampled?; 11 Whats in a Sample? A Manual for Building Cognitive Theories; 12 Assessing Evidential Support in Uncertain Environments; 13 Information Sampling in Group Decision Making.