Effect of Grouping of Evidence Types on Learning About Interactions Between Observed and Unobserved Causes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1432-1448

  Rottman, Benjamin Margolin ^a   Ahn, Woo kyoung ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal learning; Causal reasoning; Time; Unobserved causes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 82155171310     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024829     Document Type: Article

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