Cognitive Sophistication and the Development of Judgment and Decision-Making

Maggie E. Toplak

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780128166369
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128166451
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

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. - Explores whether individual heuristics and biases are associated - Reviews individual differences in cognitive abilities and thinking dispositions - Examines reasoning from the lens of cognitive sophistication - Discusses the implications for models, including dual process models - Tests and elaborates using empirical findings from a longitudinal study

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Defining cognitive sophistication in the development of judgment and decision-making
• 2 Foundations for the development of judgment and decision-making: Cognitive abilities, thinking dispositions, and specific knowledge
• 3 Development of the ability to detect and override miserly information processing
• 4 Recognizing the diagnosticity of statistical information in development: Base rate sensitivity
• 5 Preference for larger delayed rewards over smaller immediate rewards in development: Prudent temporal discounting
• 6 Understanding descriptive invariance in development: Framing effects
• 7 Correlations between judgment and decision-making tasks in developmental samples
• 8 Real-world correlates of judgment and decision-making paradigms in developmental samples
• 9 The emergence of rational thinking in development: Conclusions and future directions
• Appendix A. Tasks and measures used in developmental longitudinal study
• Appendix B. Cross-sectional age comparisons on cognitive ability, thinking disposition, probabilistic numeracy and superstitious thinking measures
• Appendix C. Real-world outcomes questionnaire
• Index