Research Report

Method-procedure
The participants were required to pretend they were epidemiologists, and to learn the source of the various food-based illnesses that were occurring in the city. In order to do this, they were presented with the names of different meals served in different restaurants, and the consequence that occurred(i.e.a disease or no disease). In each trial, the paritcipants were given the name of the resaurant and the name of the meal served in that restaurant. The participants then had to indicare on a scale form 0 to 8 whether they thought the meal would be followed by a disease or not. ….. causal test The first test was designed to ask the participants how strongly they thought that a meal, erved in a particular restaurant, would cause a disease. In thistest, the participants were asked to rate how likely they thought that meals M01 and M02 served in either restaurant A or B would cause a diseae on a scale from 0 to 8……… memory test The second test was designed to test the subjects’ memory for the training phases. In these tests, the subjects were asked to try to remember the particular name of the disease that a meal had been paired with. In this test, the subjects were given the name of one of the meals and a list of 5 options which were 4 diseases and ‘no disease’.