The Role of High-Level Reasoning and Rule-Based Representations in the Inverse Base-Rate Effect

The Role of High-Level Reasoning and Rule-Based Representations in the Inverse Base-Rate Effect

The inverse base-rate effect is the observation that on certain occasions people classify new objects as belonging to rare base-rate categories rather than common ones (e.g., D. L. Medin & S. M. Edelson, 1988). This finding is inconsistent with normative prescriptions of rationality, and pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wennerholm, Pia
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för psykologi 2001
Subjects:
Psychology
inverse base-rate effect
rationality
human knowledge representations
exemplar-based models of categorization
eliminative inference
inference rules
rapid attention shifts
associations
Psykologi
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