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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 1 Outcome contingencies used in Experiment 4

From: Causal illusions in the classroom: how the distribution of student outcomes can promote false instructional beliefs

 

High-OD

Low-OD

High-magnitude

Low-magnitude

High-magnitude

Low-magnitude

Novel teaching

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.4

Ordinary teaching

0.4

0.1

0.2

0.3

  1. Note: The low-magnitude distribution had a mean of 20, the high-magnitude distribution had a mean of 80 (both SD = 5). Cells represent the number of trial from each sample and whether the cue was present (Δp = 0)
  2. OD outcome density
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