Transcript Cognitive Complexity Michael Milburn Psychology 335

Cognitive Complexity
Michael Milburn
Psychology 335
Tetlock Readings
• What variables are being measured? How
are they measured?
• What is the hypothesis or hypotheses
being tested?
• What is the method? Correlational or
experimental? What data are used?
• What are the results? How do they relate
to the hypotheses being tested?
• Is cognitive complexity good or bad?
Georgoudi
• Levels of complexity
• Non-dialectical, Potentially dialectical,
Dialectical
• Dialectic
– Plato
– Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
Georgoudi
• Differentiates between: accidents,
occurrences, coincidences in types of
explanations individuals present
(situational effects on complexity)
• Attributions central to ideology
• Ideology presents a causal explanation for
the events in the world
Rosenberg
• Levels of complexity
• Sequential, Linear, Systematic
• Similar categories in Tetlock’s,
Georgoudi’s, and Rosenberg’s models of
complexity