Testing the deductive inferential account of blocking in causal learning.

The sensitivity of the blocking effect to outcome additivity pretraining has been used to argue that the phenomenon is the result of deductive inference, and to draw general conclusions about the nature of human causal learning. In two experiments, we manipulated participants' assumptions about the...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1120 - 1133
Main Authors:	Livesey, Evan J., Greenaway, Justine K., Schubert, Samantha, Thorwart, Anna
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2019
Subjects:	Attribution (Social psychology) Confidence Judgment (Psychology) Task performance Learning strategies Prompts (Psychology)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost