Accentuate the relevant

Article Abstract:

People could become systematic in decision-making if descriptive and formal approaches to decision-making are included in behavioral interventions. Decision-making situations include those where people do not know what their choices are as well as those where well-formulated choices can be made. Tools provided by behavioral decision-making research facilitate descriptive analysis of the understanding of the facts involved in decision-making and formal analysis of the facts critical in certain decisions. Information is acknowledged as an important element of behavioral treatments.

Decision-making, Decision making, Analysis

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Other folks' theories of mind and behavior

Article Abstract:

The European-American experience provides the basis for folk knowledge in academics' understanding of behavior and mind, which adversely affects their descriptions of theories of development and theories of mind. The European-American formulation is itself inconsistent among researchers. Behaviors can be explained as either intention blind or as indirectly or directly intentional, and research should be undertaken to study how people from different cultures invoke such behaviour explanations. Children's theories of behavior and mind should be analyzed throughout the world.

Ethnopsychology, Cross-cultural psychology

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Intention and analogy in children's naming of pictorial representations

Article Abstract:

A study was performed to determine the abilities of children to recognize pictures that designate objects by virtue of intent and analogy, but not physical similarity, and their abilities in utilizing the analogy to name pictures illustrated by other people. Three experimental tasks were employed in the study, namely, drawing task, size task and oddity task. The results revealed that children's naming of representations were based on factors other than shape. The theory of categorization based on inferred intent was attributed to the object representation.

Psychological aspects, Visual perception, Visual perception in children, Childhood perception, Analogy, Picture interpretation

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