Inference-based retrospective revaluation in human causal judgments requires knowledge of within-compound relationships

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 418-424

  Mitchell, Chris J ^a   Killedar, Asawari ^a   Lovibond, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Conditioning; Human causal judgments; Inferential reasoning; Retrospective revaluation

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLERGENS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; CUES; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27844444238     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.31.4.418     Document Type: Article

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