The Role of Part-Set Cuing and Retrieval Induced Forgetting in Subjective Probability Judgments

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dc.contributor.advisorDougherty, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorTomlinson, Tracyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-28T14:59:33Z
dc.date.available2007-09-28T14:59:33Z
dc.date.issued2007-08-14en_US
dc.description.abstractA fundamental assumption of support theory is that unpacking an implicit disjunctive hypothesis into its component hypotheses increases its perceived likelihood compared to ratings of the implicit disjunction (Tversky & Koehler, 1994). However, recent work by Sloman et al. (2004) revealed that cuing participants with atypical exemplars from a category led to decreases in perceived likelihood. Three interpretations of this typicality effect are reviewed and three experiments are reported that examine these interpretations. Experiment 1 replicated the Sloman et al. (2004) findings but the generation data indicate that the judgment results may be due to a misinterpretation of the question. Experiment 2 adapted the retrieval-induced-forgetting paradigm and found that unpacking the implicit disjunction is affected by retrieval inducement processes, and the subjective probability judgments may be better accounted for by an averaging model. Experiment 3 indicates that these typicality effects are not observed within small judgment sets.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/7266
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Cognitiveen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledProbability Judgmentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPart-set Cuingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRetrieval Induced Forgettingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledProbabilityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSubjective Probabilityen_US
dc.titleThe Role of Part-Set Cuing and Retrieval Induced Forgetting in Subjective Probability Judgmentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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