Hypothesis-testing BehaviourPsychology Press, 13 мая 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 184 How do people search evidence for a hypothesis? A well documented answer in cognitive psychology is that they search for confirming evidence. However, the rational strategy is to try to falsify the hypothesis. This book critically evaluates this contradiction. Experimental research is discussed against the background of philosophical and formal theories of hypothesis testing with striking results: Falsificationism and verificationism - the two main rival philosophies of testing - come down to one and the same principle for concrete testing behaviour, eluding the contrast between rational falsification and confirmation bias. |
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Formal theories of testing | 29 |
Wasons rule discovery task | 49 |
Wasons selection task | 73 |
Hypothesis testing under uncertainty | 117 |
The probability value perspective | 139 |
Acknowledgement | 150 |
Appendix 1 | 161 |
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