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Bramley, Neil R.; Gerstenberg, Tobias; Mayrhofer, Ralf; Lagnado, David A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
A large body of research has explored how the time between two events affects judgments of causal strength between them. In this article, we extend this work in 4 experiments that explore the role of temporal information in causal structure induction with multiple variables. We distinguish two qualitatively different types of information: The…
Descriptors: Time, Causal Models, Associative Learning, Learning Processes
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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