Collecting information: optimizing outcomes, screening options, or facilitating discrimination?

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that individuals will pursue information collecting tasks so they can discriminate, or differentiate, between a variety of options and prioritize them according to attractiveness. Tests involved observing the responses of subjects presented with three specific pieces of information and one probabilistic piece of information, and their subsequent decisions on whether to follow up on the probabilistic item.

Statistical Data Included, Decision-making, Decision making, Women, Discriminant analysis, Choice (Psychology), Myths and legends, Selectivity (Psychology)

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Assessing sequential knowledge through performance measures: the influence of short-term sequential effects

Article Abstract:

Researchers use a methodology of task dissociations to measure possible occurrences of implicit sequence, or unconscious, learning. Experiments are conducted to discover means by which to record subconscious learning performance while conscious learning occurs, abiding by similar measurements of learning used in association with conscious learning.

Memory, Learning, Psychology of, Learning theory (Psychology)

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The search for simplicity: a fundamental cognitive principle?

Article Abstract:

The human cognitive ability to cope with the world is examined in this article. The discussion concerns research conducted to discover whether the human method of discovering patterns in the world is based upon a simplicity principle, where the cognitive system finds the simplest, briefest interpretations of available information.

Cognitive psychology, Simplicity

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