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Associationism and cognition: Human contingency learning at 25
Abstract
A major topic within human learning, the field of contingency judgement, began to emerge about 25 years ago following publication of an article on depressive realism by Alloy and Abramson (1979). Subsequently, associationism has been the dominant theoretical framework for understanding contingency learning but this has been challenged in recent years by an alternative cognitive or inferential approach. This article outlines the key conceptual differences between these approaches and summarizes some of the main methods that have been employed to distinguish between them.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shanks, D. R.
- Venue
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-03
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 291-309
- ISSN
- 0033-555X (ISSN-L)
- 1747-0218
- 1747-0226
- OpenAlex
- W2078229482
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 18.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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