Discounting and conditionaliz ation - Dissociable cognitive processes in human causal inference

Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 590-595

  Goedert, Kelly M ^a   Harsch, Jennifer ^b   Spellman, Barbara A ^c  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 24644436493     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01580.x     Document Type: Article

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