Backward Blocking and Recovery from Overshadowing in Human Causal Judgement: The Role of Within-compound Associations

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-138

  Wasserman, Edward A ^a,b   Berglan, Lyndon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NOTE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0032067221     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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