The Cognitive-Miser Response Model: Testing for Intuitive and Deliberate Reasoning
The process of cognitive reasoning in literary has been widely studied in the field of cognitive psychology. For some reasoning vignettes, researchers found that people in resolving questions may involve two systems: intuitive process (system 1) and deliberate process (system 2). System 1 depicts that people may give answers immediately and this system is effortless and unconscious; however, system 2 describes that people may response slowly and the system is effortful and deliberative. This paper proposed a psychometric model which considers these two systems and applied it to facilitate the analysis of dual-process, the assessment of individual factors, and conditions that favors one than another.
Main idea of the new method
1) The Cognitive-Miser Response Model
2) The Extended Cognitive-Miser Response Model A
3) Extended Cognitive-Miser Response Model B
Comments, Questions and Future Study
1) This study adopted two dimensions for depicting person abilities while solving reasoning vignettes. It’s quite interesting that the paper considers cognitive process. For classical cognitive psychology, it seems easily to create different paradigms by conducting experiments. However, it’s difficult to find the whole picture without quantity information. The study connected cognitive psychology and proposed psychometric model to provide additional useful information to such issue. However, this kind of item seems not popular for practical testing.