Predictive versus diagnostic causal learning: Evidence from an overshadowing paradigm

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 600-608

  Waldmann, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0035460551     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196196     Document Type: Article

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