The Special Status of Actions in Causal Reasoning in Rats

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 514-527

  Leising, Kenneth J ^a   Wong, Jared ^a   Waldmann, Michael R ^b   Blaisdell, Aaron P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

causal model; causal reasoning; discounting; intervention; rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; REACTIVE INHIBITION; RECALL;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTIVE INHIBITION; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 51449093118     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.3.514     Document Type: Article

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