COGM207 Вземане на решения и преценка
Анотация:
The course aims to:
• introduce the students to the main concepts and leading cognitive theories in the fields of judgment, decision making, game theory
• actively involve students in discussion and analysis of the theories and experiments in the field
• give an opportunity for students to design and critically discuss their own experiments
Преподавател(и):
проф. Морис Гринберг д-р
доц. Евгения Христова д-р
доц. Пенка Христова д-р
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
Students who complete this course:
1) will know:
• the main theories in the field of judgment
• the main theories in the field of decision making
2) will be able to:
• critically analyze these theories
• discuss scientific articles in the field of decision making
• design their own experiments to study decision making and judgment
Предварителни изисквания:
• Knowledge and skills in experimental psychology
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
- Rationality
- Logic. Probability theory.
- Paradoxes in Rationality
- Heuristics and biases: Representativeness.
- Heuristics and biases: Availability; Anchoring and Adjustment.
- Expected Utility Theory.
- Prospect theory.
- Presentation of a paper.
- Reason-based choice.
- Mental accounting.
- Disjunction effect and choice under uncertainty.
- Bounded rationality and Choice heuristics.
- Decision Field Theory
- Presentation of an experimental design.
- Presentation of an experimental design.
Литература по темите:
• Baron, J. (2008). Thinking and Deciding. Cambridge University Press
• Gigerenzer, G. (2004) Fast and Frugal Heuristics: The Tools of Bounded Rationality. In: Harvey, N. & Koehler, D. (Eds.). Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making.
• Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking Fast and Slow. Allen Lane
• Kahneman, D. & Tversky, A. (1979) Prospect theory: an analysis of decisions under risk. Econometrica, 47, 263-291.
• Plous, S. (1993). The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making. McGraw-Hill Education
• Shafir, E., Simonson, I. & Tversky, A. (1993) Reason based chocie. Cognition, 49, 11-36.
• Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1982). Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. In: Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. (Eds.) Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Cambridge University Press.
Средства за оценяване:
• Presentation
• Written assignment