Testing a Process Model of Causal Reasoning With Inhibitory Causal Links

Autor: Rehder, Bob, Davis, Zachary J
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43
Popis: In this paper, we test people’s causal judgments when the graphs have inhibitory causal relations. We find evidence that a particularly important class of errors known as Markov vio- lations extend to these settings. These Markov violations are important because they are incompatible with causal graphical models, a theoretical framework that is often used as a com- putational level account of causal cognition. In contrast, the systematic pattern of errors are in line with the predictions of a recently proposed rational process model that models peo- ple as reasoning about concrete cases (Davis & Rehder, 2020). These findings demonstrate that errors in causal reasoning ex- tend across a range of settings, and do so in line with the pre- dictions of a model that describes the process by which causal judgments are drawn.
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