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Walasek, Lukasz and Bhatia, Sudeep (2019) Association and response accuracy in the wild. Memory & Cognition, 47 . pp. 292-298. doi:10.3758/s13421-018-0869-6
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0869-6
Abstract
We studied contestant accuracy and error in a popular television quiz show, Jeopardy!. Using vector-based knowledge representations obtained from distributional models of semantic memory, we computed the strength of association between clues and responses in over 5,000 televised games. Such representations have been shown to play a key role in memory and judgment, and consistent with this work, we find that contestants are more likely to provide correct responses when these responses are strongly associated with their clues, and more likely to provide incorrect responses when correct responses are weakly or negatively associated with their clues. This effect is stronger for easier questions with low monetary values, and for questions in which contestants compete to respond quickly. Our results show how distributional models of semantic memory can be used to predict human behavior in naturalistic high-level judgment tasks with skilled participants and significant monetary and social incentives.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Semantics, Computational linguistics, Knowledge representation (Information theory), Judgment, Response consistency, Big data, Television quiz shows | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Memory & Cognition | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer US | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0090-502X | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 15 February 2019 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 47 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 292-298 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3758/s13421-018-0869-6 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Memory & Cognition. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0869-6 | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
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