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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Decision Science
  • Behavioral Economics

Background:

  • Decision-making models often assume cue properties, like validity, drive pre-decision processes.
  • The role of memory accessibility in cue generation remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how memory accessibility influences cue use in decision-making.
  • To test if cue use is determined solely by cue validity or also by memory retrieval mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies employed a stock-forecasting task.
  • Ecological cue validity and cue accessibility were manipulated.
  • Cue accessibility was varied by altering the serial position of accurate cue discriminations during learning.

Main Results:

  • Participants showed a preference for cues that discriminated early in the learning phase (primacy effect).
  • Cue use was influenced by memory retrieval, not just cue validity.
  • This effect persisted even when overall cue validity was held constant.

Conclusions:

  • Memory accessibility plays a crucial role in cue generation and selection during decision-making.
  • Decision-making heuristics are shaped by memory retrieval processes.
  • Findings necessitate refining computational models of heuristic decision-making.