The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 411-419

  Sobel, David M ^a   Kushnir, Tamar ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONG TERM MEMORY; OBSERVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

ATTENTION; CAUSALITY; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745649255     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193418     Document Type: Article

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