Causal Learning
Advances in Research and Theory
Academic Press
Published on 26. September 1996
Book
Hardback
442 pages
978-0-12-543334-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditions to complex learning and problem solving. This guest-edited special volume is devoted to current research and discussion on associative versus cognitive accounts of learning. Written by major investigators in the field, topics include all aspects of causal learning in an open forum in which different approaches are brought together.
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Praise for the Series"A remarkable number of landmark papers...An important collection of theory and data." --CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
790 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-543334-1 (9780125433341)
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Douglas L. Medin is the series editor of The Psychology of Learning and Motivation.
Content
A.G. Baker, R.A. Murphy and F. Vallee-Tourangeau, Associative and Normative Models of Causal Induction: Reacting to Versus Understanding Cause.
M.R. Waldmann, Knowledge-Based Causal Induction.
D.A. Williams, A Comparative Analysis of Negative Contingency Learning in Humans and Nonhumans.
R.R. Miller and H. Matute, Animal Analogues of Causal Judgment.
B.A. Spellman, Conditionalizing Causality.
E.A. Wasserman, S-F Kao, L.J. Van Hamme, M. Katagiri and M.E. Young, Causation and Association.
D.R. Shanks, F.J. Lopez, R.J. Darby and A. Dickinson, Distinguishing Associative and Probabilistic Contrast Theories of Human Contingency Judgment.
P.W. Cheng, J. Park, A.S. Yarlas and K.J. Holyoak, A Causal-Power Theory of Focal Sets.
J.R. Busemeyer, M.A. McDaniel and E. Byun, The Use of Intervening Variables in Causal Learning.
J. Pearl, Structural and Probabilistic Causality.
Index.
Contents of Recent Volumes.
M.R. Waldmann, Knowledge-Based Causal Induction.
D.A. Williams, A Comparative Analysis of Negative Contingency Learning in Humans and Nonhumans.
R.R. Miller and H. Matute, Animal Analogues of Causal Judgment.
B.A. Spellman, Conditionalizing Causality.
E.A. Wasserman, S-F Kao, L.J. Van Hamme, M. Katagiri and M.E. Young, Causation and Association.
D.R. Shanks, F.J. Lopez, R.J. Darby and A. Dickinson, Distinguishing Associative and Probabilistic Contrast Theories of Human Contingency Judgment.
P.W. Cheng, J. Park, A.S. Yarlas and K.J. Holyoak, A Causal-Power Theory of Focal Sets.
J.R. Busemeyer, M.A. McDaniel and E. Byun, The Use of Intervening Variables in Causal Learning.
J. Pearl, Structural and Probabilistic Causality.
Index.
Contents of Recent Volumes.