Annette Strauß, Thomas Zimmermann, Ingmar Schäfer, Martin Scherer
[Health literacy and commitment to a general practitioner in low-acuity patients of emergency departments: results of the PiNo observational study in Northern Germany]
Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen
associative view human causal learning argues causation attributed extent putative cause activates via association mental representation effect causal learning human analogue animal conditioning tested associative theory using task fictitious character suffered two allergic reactions rash o1 headache o2 conditioned inhibition design two outcomes ao1ax bo2by participants trained one herbal remedy x prevented o1 prevented o2 inhibitory properties revealed causal judgement summation test subsequent categorization task x easily categorized o1 o2 thus categorization data indicated excitatory xo1 yo2 association reverse inhibitory relationship observed causal judgement measure second experiment showed pattern excitation inhibition dependent intermixed ao1 ax trials results problematic standard application associative activation theories causal judgement argue instead inhibition revealed causal judgement task reflects inferential reasoning relies part ability cue question excite representation outcome revealed categorization test