Causal learning
By: edited by David R. Shanks, Keith J. Holyoak and Douglas L. Medin
Series: Psychology of learning and motivation -- v. 34; Psychology of learning and motivation -- v. 34.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780080863856
Subjects: Causality; Association Learning; Cognitive Psychology; SCIENCE; Association of ideas; Causaliteit; Cognitive Science; Leren; Inductie (logica); Kennisverwerving; Psychology of Learning; PSYCHOLOGY
Description: Deals with the research and discussion on associative versus cognitive accounts of learning. This book covers various aspects of causal learning in an open forum in which different approaches are brought together. It offers a review of the literature; discusses controversies; presents major advances in understanding causal learning; and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Associative and normative models of causal induction ; reacting to versus understanding cause  -- A.G. Baker, Robin A. Murphy, and Fre de ric Valle e-Tourangeau; title: Knowledge-based causal induction  -- Michael R. Waldmann; title: A comparative analysis of negative contingency learning in humans and nonhumans  -- Douglas A. Williams; title: Animal analogues of causal judgment  -- Ralph R. Miller and Helena Matute; title: Conditionalizing causality  -- Barbara A. Spellman; title: Causation and association  -- Edward A. Wasserman ... [et al.]; title: Distinguishing associative and probabilistic contrast theories of human contingency judgment  -- David R. Shanks ... [et al.]; title: A causal-power theory of focal sets  -- Patricia W. Cheng ... [et al.]; title: The use of intervening variables in causal learning  -- Jerome R. Busemeyer; title: Structural and probabilistic causality -- Judea Pearl.