The sequential judgment of proportion

Depth of Sequential Dependencies in Psychophysical Judgment

In a first experiment, subjects had to rate the size of squares. We found that the depth of sequential dependencies depended on the judgment task. Whereas for magnitude estimation only the immediately preceding stimulus-response event was included in the judgment process, events up to two trials back were incorporated for category judgment. In a second experiment, squares of two categories diff...

Proportion Congruent effects in the absence of Sequential Congruent effects

A debated question in the cognitive control field is whether cognitive control is best conceptualized as a collection of distinct control mechanisms or a single general purpose mechanism. In an attempt to answer this question, previous studies have dissociated two well-known effects related to cognitive control: sequential congruence and proportion congruent effects. In the present experiment, ...

Past Experience Influences Judgment of Pain: Prediction of Sequential Dependencies

Recent experience can influence judgments in a wide range of tasks, from reporting physical properties of stimuli to grading papers to evaluating movies. In this work, we analyze data from a task involving a series of judgments of pain (discomfort) made by participants who were asked to place their hands in a bowl of water of varying temperature. Although trials in this task were separated by a...

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment

Exact Group Sequential Methods for Estimating a Binomial Proportion

�e �rst review existing sequential methods for estimating a binomial proportion. A�erward, we propose a new family of group sequential sampling schemes for estimating a binomial proportion with prescribed margin of error and con�dence level. In particular, we establish the uniform controllability of coverage probability and the asymptotic optimality for such a family of sampling schemes. Our th...