Mediators and Mechanisms

Tryon, Warren W.

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Mediators and Mechanisms

Tryon, Warren W.·2018·Clinical Psychological Science

DOI 10.1177/2167702618765791

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Mediators are widely thought to be mechanisms. Mediation is to mechanism what correlation is to causation. Statistical evidence of mediation is necessary but not sufficient evidence of mechanism just as statistical evidence of correlation is necessary but not sufficient evidence of cause. Mechanisms also require evidence of causation and an explanation regarding how and why mediation works in terms of a series of causal steps in order to have explanatory value. Otgaar, Muris Howe, and Merckelbach made a case for an associative activation psychological mechanism. This article further advances the case for an associative activation mechanism by showing that it is an important parallel distributed processing mechanism in the connectionist neural network models introduced by Rumelhart and McClelland.

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Authors: Tryon, W. W.
Affiliations: Fordham University (US)
Corresponding author: Tryon, Warren W.
ORCID: Tryon, Warren W.
Venue: Clinical Psychological Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2018-05-16
Volume: 6
Issue: 5
Pages: 619-628
ISSN: 2167-7026 (ISSN-L)
2167-7034
DOI: 10.1177/2167702618765791
OpenAlex: W2803836576
Cited by: 49
References: 56
Citations by year: 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 3
FWCI: 3.87
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Clinical Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Keywords: mediation, psychological mechanisms, associative activation, parallel distributed processing, connectionist models, causal explanation

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