A Review of Recent Developments in Research and Theories on Human Contingency Learning
Open Access
- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 55 (4b) , 289-310
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02724990244000034
Abstract
Over the past 20 years, human contingency learning has resurfaced as an important topic within experimental psychology. This renewed interest was sparked mainly by the proposal that associative models of Pavlovian conditioning might also apply to human contingency learning—a proposal that has led to many new empirical findings and theoretical developments. We provide a brief review of these recent developments and try to point to issues that need to be addressed in future research.Keywords
This publication has 55 references indexed in Scilit:
- Outcome and Cue Properties Modulate BlockingThe Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 2002
- Higher-Order Retrospective Revaluation in Human Causal LearningThe Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2002
- Forward blocking depends on retrospective inferences about the presence of the blocked cue during the elemental phaseMemory & Cognition, 2002
- Second-Order Backward Blocking and Unovershadowing in Human Causal LearningExperimental Psychology, 2002
- Re-examination of the role of within-compound associations in the retrospective revaluation of causal judgementsThe Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2001
- Primacy in causal strength judgments: The effect of initial evidence for generative versus inhibitory relationshipsMemory & Cognition, 2001
- From covariation to causation: A causal power theory.Psychological Review, 1997
- Causal inferences as perceptual judgmentsMemory & Cognition, 1995
- Covariation in natural causal induction.Psychological Review, 1992
- A probabilistic contrast model of causal induction.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1990