date: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z pdf:unmappedUnicodeCharsPerPage: 0 pdf:PDFVersion: 1.3 pdf:docinfo:title: How Smart Forgetting Helps Heuristic Inference - Oxford Scholarship xmp:CreatorTool: RealObjects PDFreactor(R) 7.0.7447.1, Serial No: 3892, Licensed for: Oxford University Press access_permission:modify_annotations: true access_permission:can_print_degraded: true subject: Theorists ranging from William James (1890) to some contemporary psychologists have argued that forgetting is the key to proper functioning of memory. The authors elaborate on the notion of beneficial forgetting by proposing that loss of information aids inference heuristics that exploit mnemonic information. They demonstrate this by implementing the recognition and fluency heuristics for two-alternative choice within the ACT-R cognitive architecture. For the recognition heuristic, forgetting can boost accuracy by increasing the chances that only a single alternative is recognized. Simulations of the fluency heuristic, choosing based on the speed with which the alternatives are recognized, indicate that forgetting aids the discrimination between recognition speeds. The authors show that retrieval fluency can be a proxy for real-world quantities, that people can discriminate between two objects? retrieval fluencies, and that people?s inferences are in line with the fluency heuristic. dcterms:created: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z Last-Modified: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z dcterms:modified: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z dc:format: application/pdf; version=1.3 title: How Smart Forgetting Helps Heuristic Inference - Oxford Scholarship Last-Save-Date: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z pdf:docinfo:creator_tool: RealObjects PDFreactor(R) 7.0.7447.1, Serial No: 3892, Licensed for: Oxford University Press access_permission:fill_in_form: true pdf:docinfo:modified: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z meta:save-date: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z pdf:encrypted: false dc:title: How Smart Forgetting Helps Heuristic Inference - Oxford Scholarship modified: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z cp:subject: Theorists ranging from William James (1890) to some contemporary psychologists have argued that forgetting is the key to proper functioning of memory. The authors elaborate on the notion of beneficial forgetting by proposing that loss of information aids inference heuristics that exploit mnemonic information. They demonstrate this by implementing the recognition and fluency heuristics for two-alternative choice within the ACT-R cognitive architecture. For the recognition heuristic, forgetting can boost accuracy by increasing the chances that only a single alternative is recognized. Simulations of the fluency heuristic, choosing based on the speed with which the alternatives are recognized, indicate that forgetting aids the discrimination between recognition speeds. The authors show that retrieval fluency can be a proxy for real-world quantities, that people can discriminate between two objects? retrieval fluencies, and that people?s inferences are in line with the fluency heuristic. pdf:docinfo:subject: Theorists ranging from William James (1890) to some contemporary psychologists have argued that forgetting is the key to proper functioning of memory. The authors elaborate on the notion of beneficial forgetting by proposing that loss of information aids inference heuristics that exploit mnemonic information. They demonstrate this by implementing the recognition and fluency heuristics for two-alternative choice within the ACT-R cognitive architecture. For the recognition heuristic, forgetting can boost accuracy by increasing the chances that only a single alternative is recognized. Simulations of the fluency heuristic, choosing based on the speed with which the alternatives are recognized, indicate that forgetting aids the discrimination between recognition speeds. The authors show that retrieval fluency can be a proxy for real-world quantities, that people can discriminate between two objects? retrieval fluencies, and that people?s inferences are in line with the fluency heuristic. Content-Type: application/pdf X-Parsed-By: org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser meta:creation-date: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z created: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z access_permission:extract_for_accessibility: true access_permission:assemble_document: true xmpTPg:NPages: 28 Creation-Date: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z pdf:charsPerPage: 1742 access_permission:extract_content: true access_permission:can_print: true producer: Mac OS X 10.12.3 Quartz PDFContext access_permission:can_modify: true pdf:docinfo:producer: Mac OS X 10.12.3 Quartz PDFContext pdf:docinfo:created: 2017-02-22T09:24:51Z