Assessing the causal structure of function

Sergio E. Chaigneau, Steven A. Sloman, Lawrence W. Barsalou

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Theories typically emphasize affordances or intentions as the primary determinant of an object's perceived function. The HIPE theory assumes that people integrate both into causal models that produce functional attributions. In these models, an object's physical structure and an agent's action specify an affordance jointly, constituting the immediate causes of a perceived function. The object's design history and an agent's goal in using it constitute distant causes. When specified fully, the immediate causes are sufficient for determining the perceived function - distant causes have no effect (the causal proximity principle). When the immediate causes are ambiguous or unknown, distant causes produce inferences about the immediate causes, thereby affecting functional attributions indirectly (the causal updating principle). Seven experiments supported HIPE's predictions.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)601-625
Número de páginas25
PublicaciónJournal of Experimental Psychology: General
Volumen133
N.º4
DOI
EstadoPublicada - dic. 2004

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