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Direct linkWaldmann, Michael R.; Hagmayer, York – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The ability to derive predictions for the outcomes of potential actions from observational data is one of the hallmarks of true causal reasoning. We present four learning experiments with deterministic and probabilistic data showing that people indeed make different predictions from causal models, whose parameters were learned in a purely…
Descriptors: Competence, Observational Learning, Causal Models, Probability
