Causal Models: How People Think about the World... by Steven A. Sloman

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Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, how do people construct and reason with the causal models we use to... read more

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Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Behavioral Sciences › Cognitive Psychology
Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Behavioral Sciences › Cognitive Science
Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Cognitive
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