We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Human contingency judgments: rule based or associative?
- Authors
Allan, L G
- Abstract
The study of the mechanism that detects the contingency between events, in both humans and nonhuman animals, is a matter of considerable research activity. Two broad categories of explanations of the acquisition of contingency information have received extensive evaluation: rule-based models and associative models. This article assess the two categories of models for human contingency judgments. The data reveal systematic departures in contingency judgments from the predictions of rule-based models. Recent studies indicate that a contiguity model of Pavlovian conditioning is a useful heuristic for conceptualizing human contingency judgments.
- Publication
Psychological bulletin, 1993, Vol 114, Issue 3, p435
- ISSN
0033-2909
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0033-2909.114.3.435