Causal imprinting in causal structure learning

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-413

  Taylor, Eric G ^a   Ahn, Woo Kyoung ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Belief revision; Causal reasoning; Causal structure learning; Cognitive biases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BAYES THEOREM; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84864415277     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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