Learning causality in a complex world
Subtitle: understandings of consequence
By: Tina A. Grotzer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781610488631; 9781610488648; 9781610488655
Subjects: Causation
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Simple linear causality : one thing makes another happen; title: The cognitive science of simple causality : why do we get stuck?; title: Domino causality : effects that become causes; title: Cyclic causality : loops and feedback; title: Spiraling causality : escalation and de-escalation; title: Mutual causality : symbiosis and bi-directionality; title: Relational causality : balances and differentials; title: Across time and distance : detecting delayed and distant effects; title: "What happened?" vs. "what's going on?" : thinking about steady states; title: What you can't see does matter : attending to obvious and non-obvious causes; title: It's not always a case of who did it : minding passive and unintentional causality; title: Step by step, or not : the mind-bending concept of simultaneous causality; title: Figuring out what to count on : dealing with stochastic causality; title: Isn't anybody in charge around here? : attending to distributed causality and emergence; title: Summing up : the implications for helping a new generation understand causal complexity; title: Putting it all together : teaching for causal complexity.