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ERIC Number: EJ347759
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Non-Humean Indices of Causation in Problem-Solving Situations: Causal Mechanism, Analogous Effects, and the Status of Rival Alternative Accounts.
Koslowski, Barbara; Okagaki, Lynn
Child Development, v57 n5 p1100-08 Oct 1986
According to Humean framework, relations are judged to be causal to extent that they are characterized by regularity, continuity, and covariation among college students and college-bound 11- and 14-year-olds. Presents subjects with information about one of the following indices: potential causal factor covaried with effect and potential causal factor associated with effects that were analogous to effect in question. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Etiology, Learning Theories, Problem Solving
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Causal Inferences; Humean Framework