Abstract
Task dependent conflict has been shown to reduce metacognitive judgements of confidence and prolong response times in various reasoning tasks. For this study a modified version of the base rate task was used to induce conflict while measuring response times and judgements of confidence. The aim of this experiment was to determine the influence of different instruction conditions (reasoning according to belief or according to mathematical probability) on fluency and metacognitive judgements. As expected, participants experienced higher levels of conflict when reasoning according to mathematical probability even though conflict effects were present in both conditions. Additionally, higher believability items mitigated conflict influence while reasoning in accordance with belief and increased it when reasoning in accordance with mathematical probability. These results enrich the growing field of metareasoning research and are discussed as such.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
Subtitle of host publication | Computational Foundations of Cognition |
Publisher | The Cognitive Science Society |
Pages | 3429-3434 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780991196760 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Event | 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jul 2017 → 29 Jul 2017 |
Publication series
Name | CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition |
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Conference
Conference | 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | London |
Period | 26/07/17 → 29/07/17 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by Grant 4139 from the Croatian Science Foundation, and the University of Rijeka Research grant 13.04.1.3.11.
Publisher Copyright:
© CogSci 2017.
Keywords
- base rate neglect
- conflict monitoring
- judgement of confidence
- metacognition
- metareasoning