Statistical Analysis: Multiple Regression, MANOVA, Factor Analysis, and SEM

Posted by admin on Jan 23, 2025 in Psychology | 0 comments

Multiple Regression (MR)

Standard MR is used when wanting to know the proportion of variance in a dependent variable (DV) that can be predicted by a set of independent variables (IVs). It is used to examine the importance of IVs using standard regression coefficients and semi-partial correlations. The semi-partial correlation is the unique variance in the DV predicted by an IV in the context of the total amount of variance the IV shares with the DV (square of the correlation between IV and DV). To

Relevance in Cognition: Interest and Mental Effort

Posted by admin on Jan 13, 2025 in Psychology | 0 comments

Defining Relevance

A. Interest (Cognitive Effects)

The criterion for evaluating possible interpretations that Sperber and Wilson propose in Relevance develops from a basic assumption about human cognition. The assumption is that human cognition is relevance-oriented: our whole cognitive system is geared to picking out information that is potentially relevant to us.

Information can be relevant without being communicated at all. Sperber & Wilson want to define a notion of relevance that applies not