PSYCH 769Causal Reasoning

In this seminar a variety of issues dealing with causal thinking and reasoning will be covered. General topics will include associative learning, causal cue interactions (i.e. contiguity, covariation, mechanisms), categorization, naive physics, and scientific thinking. These topics will be discussed from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives including cross cultural analyses, developmental trajectories, evolutionary theory, and neuropsychological foundations.