Causal models [electronic resource] : how people think about the world and its alternatives / Steven Sloman.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 122 22
- BF39 .S56 2005eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.
Agency and the role of causation in mental life -- The information is in the invariants -- What is a cause? -- Causal models -- Observation versus action -- Reasoning about causation -- Decision making via causal consequences -- The psychology of judgment : causality is pervasive -- Causality and conceptual structure -- Categorical induction -- Locating causal structure in language -- Causal learning -- Causation in the mind.
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