Judgments Relative to Patterns: How Temporal Sequence Patterns Affect Judgments and Memory

Autor/inn/en	Kusev, Petko; Ayton, Peter; van Schaik, Paul; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira; Stewart, Neil; Chater, Nick
Titel	Judgments Relative to Patterns: How Temporal Sequence Patterns Affect Judgments and Memory
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37 (2011) 6, S.1874-1886 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0025589
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Heuristics; Memory; Television; Recall (Psychology); Experiments; Models; Foreign Countries; Investigations; Science Education; Universities; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Heuristik; Gedächtnis; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Abberufung; Erprobung; Analogiemodell; Ausland; Untersuchung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; University; Universität
Abstract	RESix experiments studied relative frequency judgment and recall of sequentially presented items drawn from 2 distinct categories (i.e., city and animal). The experiments show that judged frequencies of categories of sequentially encountered stimuli are affected by certain properties of the sequence configuration. We found (a) a "first-run effect" whereby people overestimated the frequency of a given category when that category was the first "repeated" category to occur in the sequence and (b) a dissociation between judgments and recall; respondents may judge 1 event more likely than the other and yet recall more instances of the latter. Specifically, the distribution of recalled items does not correspond to the frequency estimates for the event categories, indicating that participants do not make frequency judgments by sampling their memory for individual items as implied by other accounts such as the availability heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman, 1973) and the availability process model (Hastie & Park, 1986). We interpret these findings as reflecting the operation of a judgment heuristic sensitive to sequential patterns and offer an account for the relationship between memory and judged frequencies of sequentially encountered stimuli. (Contains 4 footnotes, 3 tables, and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10