Causal Beliefs and Conditioned Responses: Retrospective Revaluation Induced by Experience and by Instruction

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-106

  Lovibond, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TEACHING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURE; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TEACHING;

EID: 85047686812     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.1.97     Document Type: Article

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