Human agency and associative learning: Pavlovian principles govern social process in causal relationship detection

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

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 241-266

  Cramer, Robert Ervin ^a   Weiss, Robert Frank ^b   William, Robin ^a   Reid, Suzanne ^a   Nieri, Lia ^a   Manning Ryan, Barbara ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; RANDOMIZATION;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0036634327     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990143000289     Document Type: Article

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