Efficiency of retrieval correlates with “logical” reasoning from causal conditional premises
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Efficiency of retrieval correlates with "logical" reasoning from causal conditional premises.
In two experiments, we examined the prediction that there should be a relation between the speed with which subjects can retrieve potential causes for given effects and their reasoning with causal conditional premises (if cause P, then effect Q). It was also predicted that when subjects are given effects for which there exists a single strongly associated cause, speed of retrieval of a second p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196426