Cognitive Complexity

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Cognitive Complexity

• Michael Milburn
• Psychology 335

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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?

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Georgoudi

• Levels of complexity
• Non-dialectical, Potentially dialectical,
  Dialectical
• Dialectic
• Plato
• Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

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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

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Rosenberg

• Levels of complexity
• Sequential, Linear, Systematic
• Similar categories in Tetlocks, Georgoudis, and
  Rosenbergs models of complexity