The abstraction of intervening concepts from experience with multiple input-multiple output causal environments

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-48

  Busemeyer, Jerome R ^a   McDaniel, Mark A ^b   Byun, Eunhee ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; RANDOMIZATION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0031065582     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1997.0644     Document Type: Article

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