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Prediction of performance among West African male farmers: Natural and supernatural factors
Author(s) -
Ouédraogo Aminata,
Mullet Etienne
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207590042000038
Subject(s) - schema (genetic algorithms) , psychology , social psychology , predictive power , cognition , independence (probability theory) , developmental psychology , epistemology , statistics , computer science , machine learning , mathematics , neuroscience , philosophy
The goal of the present study was to study the performance schema in a male farmer population with very limited contacts with Western media and living in the North of Burkina Faso. The methodology was an application of the theory of functional cognition. The first experiment was aimed at testing a device through which participants could express their quantitative judgements. The second experiment was aimed at uncovering the integration rule used. The data supported the independence schema already found in Indian and Chinese samples. Experiment 3 extended the performance schema by incorporating a new factor currently present in Burkinabè culture: supernatural power.