Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and ComputationUnderstanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition. Causal learning underpins the development of our concepts and categories, our intuitive theories, and our capacities for planning, imagination and inference. During the last few years, there has been an interdisciplinary revolution in our understanding of learning and reasoning: Researchers in philosophy, psychology, and computation have discovered new mechanisms for learning the causal structure of the world. This new work provides a rigorous, formal basis for theory theories of concepts and cognitive development, and moreover, the causal learning mechanisms it has uncovered go dramatically beyond the traditional mechanisms of both nativist theories, such as modularity theories, and empiricist ones, such as association or connectionism. |
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This volume originated in a causal learning “group” (Gopnik, Richardson, and Campbell) and a series of workshops between September 2003 and June 2004 at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, ...
This volume originated in a causal learning “group” (Gopnik, Richardson, and Campbell) and a series of workshops between September 2003 and June 2004 at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, ...
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However, there seems less reason to believe that children's abilities to reason broadly about the causes of human behavior, physical events, and biological transformations are an outgrowth of domain-specific modules.
However, there seems less reason to believe that children's abilities to reason broadly about the causes of human behavior, physical events, and biological transformations are an outgrowth of domain-specific modules.
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A large body of research on learning subsequently elaborated the ways in which behavior could be shaped by reinforcing or punishing outcomes. Operant learning has been demonstrated in nonhuman animals ranging from pigeons to primates; ...
A large body of research on learning subsequently elaborated the ways in which behavior could be shaped by reinforcing or punishing outcomes. Operant learning has been demonstrated in nonhuman animals ranging from pigeons to primates; ...
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... of extinction (the fact that an animal that has learned through operant conditioning to avoid a cue once associated with a punishment retains the behavior in the presence of the cue long after the association has disappeared).
... of extinction (the fact that an animal that has learned through operant conditioning to avoid a cue once associated with a punishment retains the behavior in the presence of the cue long after the association has disappeared).
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... and the social and behavioral sciences and with a substantial methodological tradition in statistics, econometrics, and experimental design, which connects causal claims to claims about the outcomes of hypothetical experiments.
... and the social and behavioral sciences and with a substantial methodological tradition in statistics, econometrics, and experimental design, which connects causal claims to claims about the outcomes of hypothetical experiments.
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| Title | Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation Oxford Series in Cognitive Development |
| Editors | Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 019803928X, 9780198039280 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
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