1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Elements of cognitive feedback
C. Functional validity information (FVI)
1. ra
2. G
3. C

7. Optimal function forms for baseball task