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The study of Bowers et al. (1990):
What is intuition?
Oxford English Dictionary:
„The immediate apprehension of an object by
the mind without the intervention of any
reasoning process“
Intuitive Judgments
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Intuitive Judgments
This immediate apprehension comes from an
unconscious organization of contents that results in
conscious understanding.
People experience this understanding often as a
sudden insight (see Metcalfe & Wiebe, 1987).
In contrast to everyday use, scientific psychology
does not assume that intuitively made decisions
must be accurate.
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Bowers et al. (1990) showed participants pairs
of pictures. Both contained the same
fragments, but the fragments of one picture
depicted a real object whereas the fragments
of the other picture did not.
Intuitive Judgments
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I show you now three pairs of pictures for ten seconds each. Your task is to find out what object one of the picture shows. If you do not find out which object is shown, please guess which of the two pictures depicts a real object. After each picture, I count how many chose each picture, and I show you the solution.
Intuitive Judgments
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Intuitive Judgments
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Intuitive Judgments
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Intuitive Judgments
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Participants recognized the accurate object in
about one third of the pictures. These picture pairs
were excluded from further analysis.
From the remaining unrecognized picture pairs,
participants guesses about which picture is a real
object were about 60% right.
Intuitive Judgments
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Intuitive Judgments
The authors concluded that people had intuitive
knowledge to solve this task. This knowledge was
available at an early stage of the judgmental
process, before they were able to recognize the
pictures.
Other instances of non-analytic bases of
judgments can be found in research on
unconscious perception (e.g., Marcel, 1983) and
decision making (e.g., Wilson & Schooler, 1991).
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