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Category Transfer in Sequential Causal Learning: The Unbroken Mechanism Hypothesis
2011
Cognitive Science
The goal of the present set of studies is to explore the boundary conditions of category transfer in causal learning. Previous research has shown that people are capable of inducing categories based on causal learning input, and they often transfer these categories to new causal learning tasks. However, occasionally learners abandon the learned categories and induce new ones. Whereas previously it has been argued that transfer is only observed with essentialist categories in which the hidden
doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01179.x
pmid:21609354
fatcat:b43dzssuqnfrfo2rgox4lztrw4