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Leising, Kenneth J.; Wong, Jared; Waldmann, Michael R.; Blaisdell, Aaron P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
A. P. Blaisdell, K. Sawa, K. J. Leising, and M. R. Waldmann (2006) reported evidence for causal reasoning in rats. After learning through Pavlovian observation that Event A (a light) was a common cause of Events X (an auditory stimulus) and F (food), rats predicted F in the test phase when they observed Event X as a cue but not when they generated…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Thinking Skills, Animals, Meta Analysis
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Garcia-Retamero, Rocio; Hoffrage, Ulrich; Dieckmann, Anja; Ramos, Manuel – Learning and Motivation, 2007
Three experiments investigated whether participants used Take The Best (TTB) Configural, a fast and frugal heuristic that processes configurations of cues when making inferences concerning which of two alternatives has a higher criterion value. Participants were presented with a compound cue that was nonlinearly separable from its elements. The…
Descriptors: Inferences, Cues, Causal Models, Heuristics