Instruction type and believability influence on metareasoning in a base rate task

Pavle Valerjev, Marin Dujmović

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Subtitle of host publicationComputational Foundations of Cognition
PublisherThe Cognitive Science Society
Pages3429-3434
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780991196760
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 26 Jul 201729 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameCogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition

Conference

Conference39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period26/07/1729/07/17

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

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