Causal models

Sloman, Steven A.

Causal models how people think about the world and its alternatives / [electronic resource] : Steven Sloman. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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2009.
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Psychology--Mathematical models.
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