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Title: | Do Associations Explain Mental Models of Cause? |
Author: | Barberia, Itxaso Baetu, Irina Murphy, Robin A. Baker, A. G. |
Keywords: | Psicologia de l'aprenentatge Aprenentatge associatiu Psychology of learning Associative learning |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | University of California |
Abstract: | The propositional or rationalist Bayesian approach to learning is contrasted with an interpretation of causal learning in associative terms. A review of the development of the use of rational causal models in the psychology of learning is discussed concluding with the presentation of three areas of research related to cause-effect learning. We explain how rational context choices, a selective association effect (i.e., blocking of inhibition) as well as causal structure can all emerge from processes that can be modeled using elements of standard associative theory. We present the auto-associator (e.g., Baetu & Baker, 2009) as one such simple account of causal structure. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3q32p0v1 |
It is part of: | International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2011, vol. 24, p. 365-388 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/170101 |
ISSN: | 0889-3667 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació) |
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