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Contingency Diagrams as Teaching Tools

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Contingency diagrams are particularly effective teaching tools, because they provide a means for students to view the complexities of contingency networks present in natural and laboratory settings while displaying the elementary processes that constitute those networks. This paper sketches recent developments in this visualization technology and illustrates approaches for using contingency diagrams in teaching.

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Mattaini, M.A. Contingency Diagrams as Teaching Tools. BEHAV ANALYST 18, 93–98 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03392695

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