Measuring judgment and decision-making in developmental samples: assessment of the generation of cognitively sophisticated responses and implications for the study of creative cognition

Rizeq, J. and Toplak, M. E. (2023) Measuring judgment and decision-making in developmental samples: assessment of the generation of cognitively sophisticated responses and implications for the study of creative cognition. In: Ball, L. J. and Vallée-Tourangeau, F. (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. Routledge, pp. 284-307. ISBN 9780367443788 (doi: 10.4324/9781003009351-20)

Abstract

theoretical and empirical studies in the study of judgment and decision-making to explore potential commonalities across these literatures, with the potential of using parallel paradigms that may be productive for the empirical study of creative cognition. We first review the operationalization of judgment and decision-making, highlighting two key dimensions to organize the multifarious tasks and paradigms that have been examined: processing and knowledge requirements. We cover the importance of stimulus equivalence across different periods of development and review indicators of cognitive sophistication, including associations with age, cognitive abilities, and thinking dispositions, all of which have been used to examine patterns of performance in relation to tasks of judgment and decision-making in developmental samples. We then introduce a set of knowledge facilitators and inhibitors that have been examined in the judgment and decision-making literature. We use empirical findings from a study conducted with adolescents on three domains of contaminated mindware – paranormal, conspiracy, and anti-science – as a way to discuss the inhibitive aspect of certain types of mindware and highlight the implications for the study of creative cognition in developmental samples. We conclude this chapter with considerations for extrapolating theoretical and empirical research strategies from the judgment and decision-making literature that have been identified as relevant in the field of creative cognition.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Rizeq, Dr Jala
• Authors: Rizeq, J., and Toplak, M. E.
• College/School: College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9780367443788