Sökning: "judgment accuracy"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden judgment accuracy.
1. Retrieval effort and accuracy in eyewitness testimony
Sammanfattning : For better or worse, eyewitness testimonies make up common evidence in criminal trials. This has the benefit that it allows for guilty offenders to be convicted even in the absence of physical evidence. However, the fallibility of memory also means that eyewitnesses may be mistaken in their recall, risking wrongful, innocent convictions. LÄS MER
2. The Substituted Judgment Standard. Studies on the Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making
Sammanfattning : Patients who are incompetent need a surrogate decision maker to make treatment decisons on their behalf. One of the main ethical questions that arise in this context is what standard ought to govern such decision making. LÄS MER
3. The Cognitive Basis of Joint Probability Judgments : Processes, Ecology, and Adaption
Sammanfattning : When navigating an uncertain world, it is often necessary to judge the probability of a conjunction of events, that is, their joint probability. The subject of this thesis is how people infer joint probabilities from probabilities of individual events. LÄS MER
4. Metacognitive Aspects of Learning : What Influences Magnitude and Accuracy of Ease-of-Learning Judgments?
Sammanfattning : To learn efficiently, many situations require people to judge what will be easy or difficult to learn, or how well it has been stored in memory. These metacognitive judgments are important to understand because they most likely guide how people behave when they learn, and consequently how much they learn. LÄS MER
5. Influences on toxicological risk assessments
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to characterize and discuss two kinds of influences on the outcome of a toxicological risk assessment. One kind of influence has to do with values and the role played by value-based judgment. Currently, many toxicological risk assessments are characterized by scientific uncertainties. LÄS MER