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The dependency of the validity of information integration on cognitive variables and the judgement task
Author(s) -
Mattenklott Axel,
Luutz Rainer
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420100105
Subject(s) - judgement , psychology , cognition , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , variables , dependency (uml) , variable (mathematics) , cognitive complexity , information integration , social psychology , artificial intelligence , statistics , computer science , mathematics , data mining , epistemology , mathematical analysis , management , neuroscience , economics , philosophy
Simple models of information integration focus essentially on the combination of the components of information. This research investigated whether cognitive variables in the constructs of intelligence and cognitive complexity, as well as concentration, could predict the conditions of simple models of judgement. As additional predictors, the two qualitative variables [type of information] and [experience of the judgement task] were introduced. Subjects judged three types of stimuli using the pair comparison method. The conditions of the judgement models were analysed in the framework of the conjoint‐measurement approach. Five different regression functions provided mediocre approximations to the 10 conditions of the models, when the 9 cognitive variables were considered. The small differences did not favour one of the five functions. The introduction of the qualitative predictor [type of information] improved the estimations more clearly than the experience of the judgement task, the effect of which was small.