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Rehder, Bob; Kim, ShinWoo – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Research has documented two effects of interfeature causal knowledge on classification. A "causal status effect" occurs when features that are causes are more important to category membership than their effects. A "coherence effect" occurs when combinations of features that are consistent with causal laws provide additional…
Descriptors: Classification, Probability, Experiments, Experimental Psychology
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White, Peter A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
When people make causal judgments from contingency information, a principal aim is to account for occurrences of the outcome. When 2 causes are under consideration, the capacity of either to account for occurrences is judged from how likely the cause is to be present when the outcome occurs and from the rate at which the outcome occurs when that…
Descriptors: Prediction, Influences, Evaluative Thinking, Weighted Scores