The role of learning data in causal reasoning about observations and interventions

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-264

  Meder, Björn ^a   Hagmayer, York ^a   Waldmann, Michael R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERVENTION STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; OBSERVATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; STRENGTH; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 65549145542     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.3.249     Document Type: Article

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