Generality of the summation effect in human causal learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 877-889

  Soto, Fabian A ^a   Vogel, Edgar H ^a   Castillo, Ramon D ^a   Wagner, Allan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal learning; Configural; Elemental; Rescorla Wagner model; Summation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PROBABILITY LEARNING;

EID: 67649736513     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802373688     Document Type: Article

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