nonequivalence of teleological & causal explanations in psychologyThe relation of teleological to causal explanations in psychology is examined. Nagel's claim that they are logically equivalent is rejected. Two
However, the study of such variables by formal methods of statistical relevance are no longer taboo in psychology, as long as satisfactory operational definitions are provided for such variables. A person’s intuitive definition might differ from a psychologist’s explicit operational definition, but ...
topics and for additional references see Transfer of Learning, Cognitive Psychology of; Early Concept Learning in Children; Infant Development: Physical and Social Cognition; Piaget's Theory of Child Development; Scientific Concepts: Development in Children; and Problem Solving (Everyday), Psychology of...
2.4 Text Features in Causal Graphs (for Social Science, Psychology, etc.)(2021 EMNLP Findings) Mining the Cause of Political Decision-Making from Social Media: A Case Study of COVID-19 Policies across the US States Zhijing Jin, Zeyu Peng, Tejas Vaidhya, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Rada Mihalcea. ...
There are several possible explanations for this result. First, the hidden zero effect may be sensitive to pre-exposure to the task and therefore may diminish over time. Second, there might be a stronger dependence of the hidden zero effect on prefrontal cortex than previously anticipated. Third...
Cause and effect must be connected by a physical signal also when we discuss causal relations in biology, psychology, sociology or history. It is for example often said that the cause of the First World War was the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The...
journals have a particular commitment to causal explanations as central to sociological knowledge and its advancement. The Centrality of Causal Claims After analyzing the strength of causal claims, we next examined their centrality. We looked at both the centrality of the causal relationship in the...
Instead, researchers search for and find ever-more unlikely explanations and ever-more unlikely evidence in a competitive quest to be surprising, clever and published. The review processes have also incentiviced lack of care, private and social failure to correct errors, and even outright misconduct...
Tues Feb 11, 12pm Seminar in Advanced Research Methods, Princeton Department of Psychology How well does a particular information display support decision-making? This question comes up when studying human behavior under different strategies for presenting information (e.g., forecast displays, data vis...
Journal 2009, Clinical Psychology ReviewLeonardo Fava, John Morton Review article Causal modeling of panic disorder theories Use of the causal modeling framework involves creation of a directed graph in which the elements of a theory are connected with arrows. Thus, an arrow linking element A to ...