The role of representative design in an ecological approach to cognition

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serval:BIB_33264
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Title
The role of representative design in an ecological approach to cognition
Journal
Psychological Bulletin
Author(s)
Dhami M., Hertwig R., Hoffrage U.
ISSN
0033-2909
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2004
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
130
Number
6
Pages
959-988
Language
english
Abstract
Egon Brunswik argued that psychological processes are adapted to environmental properties. He proposed the method of representative design to capture these processes and advocated that psychology be a science of organism- environment relations. Representative design involves randomly sampling stimuli from the environment or creating stimuli in which environmental properties are preserved. This departs from systematic design. The authors review the development of representative design, examine its use in judgment and decision-making research, and demonstrate the effect of design on research findings. They suggest that some of the practical difficulties associated with representative design may be overcome with modem technologies. The importance of representative design in psychology and the implications of this method for ecological approaches to cognition are discussed.
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