Thinking & reasoning
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Thinking & reasoning
Psychology Press, c1996
- v. 1
Available at 15 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a collection of all papers published in volume one of the journal "Thinking and Reasoning", an international journal dedicated to the understanding of human thought processes with a particular emphasis on studies on reasoning. Whilst the primary focus is on psychological studies of thinking, contributions are included from philosophers, artificial intelligence researchers and other cognitive scientists whose work bears upon the central concerns of the journal. Topics covered include studies of deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, problem solving, decision making, probability judgement, conceptual thinking, and the influence of language and culture on thought.
Table of Contents
- Some determinants of successful analogical transfer in the solution of algebra word problems, L.R. Novick
- confirmation, disconfirmation, and invention - the case of Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, M.E. Gorman
- facilitation and matching bias in the abstract selection task, R.D. Platt, R.A. Griggs
- the elusive wishful thinking effect, M. Bar- Hillel, D. Budescu
- feature review - implicit learning, consciousness, and the psychology of thinking, J.St.B.T. Evans
- theories of reasoning and the computational explanation of everyday inference, M. Oaksford, N. Chater
- focusing in Wason's selection task - content and instruction effects, R.E. Love, C.M. Kessler
- the locus of facilitation in the abstract selection task, D.W. Green, R. Larking
- probabilistic factors in deontic reasoning, K.I. Manktelow, E.J. Sutherland, D. E. Over
- Myside bias in thinking about abortion, J. Baron
- causality and the categorization of objects and events, C.D. Schunn, A.H. Vera
- pragmatic reasoning with a point of view, K.J. Holyoak, P.W. Cheng
- perspective shifts on the selection task - reasoning or relevance, J.St.B.T. Evans, J. Clibbens
- the taming of content - some thoughts about domains and modules, G. Gigerenzer
- contextual factors in deontic reasoning, V. Girotto
- a model point of view, P.N. Johnson-Laird, R.M.J. rne
- two- and three-stage models of deontic reasoning, M. Oaksford, N. Chater
- on the relationship between pragmatic schemas and mental logic, D.P. O'Brien
- perspectives, preferences, and probabilities, D.E. Over, K.I. Manktelow
- pragmatic reasoning from multiple points of view - a response, K.J. Holyoak, P.W. Cheng.
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