ABSTRACT
In contrast to all previous chapters that focused on information search in the world “out there,” the present chapter extends CELA to another ecological space inside the individual, namely, to information search in memory. This expedition to the “inner world” assumes that the basic principles of CELA are equally applicable to hypothesis testing in the external world as well as to the special case of memory sampling. Based on this general assumption the present chapter will address the following empirical and theoretical questions:
• How can hypothesis testing in the “inner world” be described, that is, what basic rules determine sampling processes in memory and what restrictions are imposed on this prominent way of information search?
