Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representation
Inferences about target variables can be achieved by deliberate integration of probabilistic cues or by retrieving similar cue-patterns (exemplars) from memory. In tasks with cue information presented in on-screen displays, rule-based strategies tend to dominate unless the abstraction of cue-target...
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| description | Inferences about target variables can be achieved by deliberate integration of probabilistic cues or by retrieving similar cue-patterns (exemplars) from memory. In tasks with cue information presented in on-screen displays, rule-based strategies tend to dominate unless the abstraction of cue-target relations is unfeasible. This dominance has also been demonstrated — surprisingly — in experiments that demanded the retrieval of cue values from memory (M. Persson & J. Rieskamp, 2009). In three modified replications involving a fictitious disease, binary cue values were represented either by alternative symptoms (e.g., fever vs. hypothermia) or by symptom presence vs. absence (e.g., fever vs. no fever). The former representation might hinder cue abstraction. The cues were predictive of the severity of the disease, and participants had to infer in each trial who of two patients was sicker. Both experiments replicated the rule-dominance with present-absent cues but yielded higher percentages of exemplar-based strategies with alternative cues. The experiments demonstrate that a change in cue representation may induce a dramatic shift from rule-based to exemplar-based reasoning in formally identical tasks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bcdca59066eb468da1f39ba1db1391452023-09-03T14:02:46ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752010-08-01532633810.1017/S1930297500002138Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representationArndt Bröder0Ben R. Newell1Christine Platzer2University of Bonn Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, GermanyUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaUniversity of BonnInferences about target variables can be achieved by deliberate integration of probabilistic cues or by retrieving similar cue-patterns (exemplars) from memory. In tasks with cue information presented in on-screen displays, rule-based strategies tend to dominate unless the abstraction of cue-target relations is unfeasible. This dominance has also been demonstrated — surprisingly — in experiments that demanded the retrieval of cue values from memory (M. Persson & J. Rieskamp, 2009). In three modified replications involving a fictitious disease, binary cue values were represented either by alternative symptoms (e.g., fever vs. hypothermia) or by symptom presence vs. absence (e.g., fever vs. no fever). The former representation might hinder cue abstraction. The cues were predictive of the severity of the disease, and participants had to infer in each trial who of two patients was sicker. Both experiments replicated the rule-dominance with present-absent cues but yielded higher percentages of exemplar-based strategies with alternative cues. The experiments demonstrate that a change in cue representation may induce a dramatic shift from rule-based to exemplar-based reasoning in formally identical tasks.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500002138/type/journal_articledecision makingexemplar memory |
| spellingShingle | Arndt Bröder Ben R. Newell Christine Platzer Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representation Judgment and Decision Making decision making exemplar memory |
| title | Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representation |
| title_full | Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representation |
| title_fullStr | Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representation |
| title_short | Cue integration vs. exemplar-based reasoning in multi-attribute decisions from memory: A matter of cue representation |
| title_sort | cue integration vs exemplar based reasoning in multi attribute decisions from memory a matter of cue representation |
| topic | decision making exemplar memory |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500002138/type/journal_article |
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