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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?
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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