Assessment 2
PS931 - Bayesian Approaches in Behavioural Science
Spring Term 2025 (updated: 2025-02-12)
• This assessment counts for 42% of your overall grade.
• Submission Instructions: Please submit your solution as one pdf document to Tabula as “Assess-ment 2” by midday (12 noon), Wednesday, 9th April 2025.
• Important: Your document should be called YOUR-STUDENT-ID_a2.pdf. Please also add your student ID to the top of the document. To help ensure anonymous marking, please refrain from including your name in the document (or the file name).
Task
There are many approaches to modelling the cognition and behaviour of humans and other animals, and decisions can be viewed at at range of levels, from the behavioural level (patterns of outcomes) to the neural level (detailed cognitive processes). Bearing this in mind, please supply an answer, in the form. of an essay, to the following question:
To what extent can Bayesian models explain individual differences in decision-making? Criti cally assess this in relation to cognitive biases and heuristics, using illustrative examples from peer-reviewed studies.
All references should be included at the end, in APA-style. format.
The essay has a maximum length of 2000 words. The word count does not include the reference list (nor the title).
Finally, please note that submitting AI-generated text for this assessment will be considered as plagiarism; i.e., suspected cases will be referred to the academic integrity panel.