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Testing a Process Model of Causal Reasoning With Inhibitory Causal Links
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; vol 43, iss 43
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In this paper, we test people’s causal judgments when the graphs have inhibitory causal relations. We find evidence that a particularly important class of errors known as Markov vio- lations extend to these settings. These Markov violations are important because they are incompatible with causal graphical models, a theoretical framework that is often used as a com- putational level account of causal cognition. In contrast, the systematic pattern of errors are in line with the predictions of a recently proposed rational process model that models peo- ple as reasoning about concrete cases (Davis & Rehder, 2020). These findings demonstrate that errors in causal reasoning ex- tend across a range of settings, and do so in line with the pre- dictions of a model that describes the process by which causal judgments are drawn.
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- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; vol 43, iss 43
- Notes :
- Rehder, Bob, Davis, Zachary J
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1287313292
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource