Cognitive Sophistication and the Development of Judgment and Decision-Making reviews the existing literature on the development of reasoning, judgment and decision-making, with a primary focus on measures from the heuristics and biases tradition. The book presents a model based on cognitive sophistication to examine the development of judgment and decision-making, including age related differences in developmental samples, associations with intellectual abilities and executive functions, and associations with dispositional tendencies that support judgment and decision-making. Additional sections cover the empirical findings of a longitudinal study conducted over seven years that tie together the discussed aspects related to cognitive sophistication.
This book will provide a much-needed description of the theoretical and conceptual issues, a review of empirical findings, and an integrative summary of the implications for developmental models of reasoning, judgment and decision-making.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Dedication - p. iii 7. Acknowledgments - p. xi 8. 1. Defining cognitive sophistication in the development of judgment and decision-making - p. 12 9. 2. Foundations for the development of judgment and decision-making: Cognitive abilities, thinking dispositions, and specific knowledge - p. 23 10. 3. Development of the ability to detect and override miserly information processing - p. 53 11. 4. Recognizing the diagnosticity of statistical information in development: Base rate sensitivity - p. 89 12. 5. Preference for larger delayed rewards over smaller immediate rewards in development: Prudent temporal discounting - p. 101 13. 6. Understanding descriptive invariance in development: Framing effects - p. 121 14. 7. Correlations between judgment and decision-making tasks in developmental samples - p. 145 15. 8. Real-world correlates of judgment and decision-making paradigms in developmental samples - p. 165 16. 9. The emergence of rational thinking in development: Conclusions and future directions - p. 191 17. Appendix A. Tasks and measures used in developmental longitudinal study - p. 213 18. Appendix B. Cross-sectional age comparisons on cognitive ability, thinking disposition, probabilistic numeracy and superstitious thinking measures - p. 233 19. Appendix C. Real-world outcomes questionnaire - p. 239 20. Index - p. 281
Cognitive Sophistication and the Development of Judgment and Decision-Making reviews the existing literature on the development of reasoning, judgment and decision-making, with a primary focus on measures from the heuristics and biases tradition. The book presents a model based on cognitive sophistication to examine the development of judgment and decision-making, including age related differences in developmental samples, associations with intellectual abilities and executive functions, and associations with dispositional tendencies that support judgment and decision-making. Additional sections cover the empirical findings of a longitudinal study conducted over seven years that tie together the discussed aspects related to cognitive sophistication.
This book will provide a much-needed description of the theoretical and conceptual issues, a review of empirical findings, and an integrative summary of the implications for developmental models of reasoning, judgment and decision-making.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Dedication - p. iii 7. Acknowledgments - p. xi 8. 1. Defining cognitive sophistication in the development of judgment and decision-making - p. 12 9. 2. Foundations for the development of judgment and decision-making: Cognitive abilities, thinking dispositions, and specific knowledge - p. 23 10. 3. Development of the ability to detect and override miserly information processing - p. 53 11. 4. Recognizing the diagnosticity of statistical information in development: Base rate sensitivity - p. 89 12. 5. Preference for larger delayed rewards over smaller immediate rewards in development: Prudent temporal discounting - p. 101 13. 6. Understanding descriptive invariance in development: Framing effects - p. 121 14. 7. Correlations between judgment and decision-making tasks in developmental samples - p. 145 15. 8. Real-world correlates of judgment and decision-making paradigms in developmental samples - p. 165 16. 9. The emergence of rational thinking in development: Conclusions and future directions - p. 191 17. Appendix A. Tasks and measures used in developmental longitudinal study - p. 213 18. Appendix B. Cross-sectional age comparisons on cognitive ability, thinking disposition, probabilistic numeracy and superstitious thinking measures - p. 233 19. Appendix C. Real-world outcomes questionnaire - p. 239 20. Index - p. 281
