Persistence of causal illusions after extensive training
Entidad
UAM. Departamento de Psicología BásicaEditor
Frontiers MediaFecha de edición
2019-01-24Cita
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00024
Frontiers in Physiology 10 January (2019): Article 24
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1664-042XDOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00024Financiado por
This study was supported by the grant PSI2016-75776-R (AEI/FEDER, UE) from Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Spanish Government and the European Regional Development Fund to IB. MV was supported by grant 2016-T1/SOC-1395 from Comunidad de Madrid (Programa de Atracción de Talento Investigador)Proyecto
Gobierno de España. PSI2016-75776-R; Comunidad de Madrid. 2016-T1/SOC-1395Versión del editor
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00024Materias
Causal illusion; Causal learning; Contingency learning; Extensive training; Illusion of causality; Rescorla-Wagner model; PsicologíaDerechos
© 2019 Barberia, Vadillo and Rodríguez-Ferreiro.Resumen
We carried out an experiment using a conventional causal learning task but extending the number of learning trials participants were exposed to. Participants in the standard training group were exposed to 48 learning trials before being asked about the potential causal relationship under examination, whereas for participants in the long training group the length of training was extended to 288 trials. In both groups, the event acting as the potential cause had zero correlation with the occurrence of the outcome, but both the outcome density and the cause density were high, therefore providing a breeding ground for the emergence of a causal illusion. In contradiction to the predictions of associative models such the Rescorla-Wagner model, we found moderate evidence against the hypothesis that extending the learning phase alters the causal illusion. However, assessing causal impressions recurrently did weaken participants' causal illusions.
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Vadillo Nistal, Miguel Ángel
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Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier
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