TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling Cognitive Parsimony with a Demand Selection Task
AU - Larue, Othalia
AU - Juvina, Ion
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The law of less work (Hull, 1943) is our natural tendency given two alternatives with equal incentives to pick the less demanding one. This notion also appears in the field of judgment and decision making (Gigerenzer & Goldstein, 1996; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974), it is referred to as internal cost of effort. Cognitive parsimony is our tendency to favour low-effort strategies that help us to decide faster and simple strategies to approach a complex problem. An experimental paradigm for this phenomenon has been developed by Kool, McGuire, Rosen, & Botvinick (2010) and referred to as the demand selection task. In this poster, we present a model of this task developed in the ACT-R architecture (Anderson, 2007), which offers an hypothesis as to which cognitive mechanisms might participate in this phenomenon.
AB - The law of less work (Hull, 1943) is our natural tendency given two alternatives with equal incentives to pick the less demanding one. This notion also appears in the field of judgment and decision making (Gigerenzer & Goldstein, 1996; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974), it is referred to as internal cost of effort. Cognitive parsimony is our tendency to favour low-effort strategies that help us to decide faster and simple strategies to approach a complex problem. An experimental paradigm for this phenomenon has been developed by Kool, McGuire, Rosen, & Botvinick (2010) and referred to as the demand selection task. In this poster, we present a model of this task developed in the ACT-R architecture (Anderson, 2007), which offers an hypothesis as to which cognitive mechanisms might participate in this phenomenon.
KW - Cognitive modeling
KW - Cognitive parsimony
KW - Demand selection
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85085481695
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85085481695#tab=citedBy
UR - https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/psychology/518
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of ICCM 2016 - 14th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
SP - 276
EP - 278
BT - Proceedings of ICCM 2016 - 14th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling
A2 - Reitter, David
A2 - Ritter, Frank E.
PB - The Pennsylvania State University
T2 - 14th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM 2016
Y2 - 3 August 2016 through 6 August 2016
ER -