Think-Aloud Protocols and the Selection Task: Evidence for Relevance Effects and Rationalization Processes.

Lucas, Erica J. and Ball, Linden J. (2005) Think-Aloud Protocols and the Selection Task: Evidence for Relevance Effects and Rationalization Processes. Thinking and Reasoning, 11 (1). pp. 35-66. ISSN 1354-6783

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Abstract

Two experiments are reported that employed think-aloud methods to test predictions concerning relevance effects and rationalization processes derivable from Evans’ (1996) heuristic-analytic theory of the selection task. Evans’ account proposes that card selections are triggered by rele vance-determining heuristics, with analytic processing serving merely to rationalize heuristically-cued decisions. As such, selected cards should be associated with more references to both their facing and their hidden sides than rejected cards, which are not subjected to analytic rationalization. Experiment 1 used a standard selection-task paradigm, with negative components permuted through abstract conditional rules. Support was found for all heuristic-analytic predictions. This evidence was shown to be robust in Experiment 2, where “select-don’t select” decisions were enforced for all cards. Both experiments also clarify the role played by secondary heuristics in cueing the consideration of hidden card values during rationalization. We suggest that whilst Evans’ heuristic-analytic model and Oaksford and Chater’s (e.g., 2003) optimal data selection model can provide compelling accounts of our protocol findings, the mental models theory fares less well as an explanation of our full dataset.

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Journal Article
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Thinking and Reasoning
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The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Thinking & Reasoning, 11 (1), 2005, © Informa Plc
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?? philosophyexperimental and cognitive psychologypsychology (miscellaneous)bf psychology ??
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01 Aug 2008 10:35
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