Lecture 18 - Contingency Learning & Causal Reasoning

Question 1

Contingency judgement

Answer 1

To what degree does performance of action (A) dictate the occurrence of outcome (O)?

Question 2

Outcome density effect

Answer 2

When you use 75-75 contingency, they are judging their control of what is happening a lot higher than when it only happens 25-25, where they don’t believe they have much control over the problem.

Question 3

How are participant judgments of contingency measured?

Answer 3

Delta P

Question 4

Restrospective revaluation

Answer 4

Changing your mind about a cue, based on learning about a different cue.

You are retrieving if from memory and changing your mind about how its connected to the outcome.

Human do seen to show retrospective revaluation.