JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING BEHAVIOR An overview of cognitive feedback and an illustration of cognitive feedback for the the baseball task JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING BEHAVIOR PAD634 Department of Public Administration and Policy Rockefeller College of Public Administration and Policy University at Albany, State University of New York http://www.albany.edu/~ts460/pad634.html
Cognitive feedback CFB is a way of learning to improve accuracy of judgment under uncertainty CFB is an alternative to outcome FB - knowledge of results A. Difficult to learn because of causal ambiguity B. May actually deter learning
Elements of cognitive feedback A. Task information (TI) - relations between cues and distal variable 1. Task uncertainty 2. Relations between each cue and criterion 3. Cue intercorrelations 4. Distribution of criterion
Elements of cognitive feedback B. Cognitive information (CI) 1. Judgmental consistency 2. Relations between each cue and judgment 3. Cue intercorrelations (subjective) 4. Distribution of judgments
Elements of cognitive feedback C. Functional validity information (FVI) 1. ra 2. G 3. C
Optimal function forms for baseball task