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Direct linkLagnado, David A.; Sloman, Steven – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
Can people learn causal structure more effectively through intervention rather than observation? Four studies used a trial-based learning paradigm in which participants obtained probabilistic data about a causal chain through either observation or intervention and then selected the causal model most likely to have generated the data. Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Observation, Intervention, Causal Models
