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Peer reviewedCheng, Patricia W.; Novick, Laura R. – Psychological Review, 1991
Biases and models usually offered by cognitive and social psychology and by philosophy to explain causal induction are evaluated with respect to focal sets (contextually determined sets of events over which covariation is computed). A probabilistic contrast model is proposed as underlying covariation computation in natural causal induction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Cognitive Psychology, Computation, Induction
