The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

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Pub. Date: 2005-04-18
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Written by foremost authorities from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, the chapters of this reference summarize basic concepts and facts of a major topic, sketch its history, and analyze the progress its research is currently making. The volume also includes work related to developmental, social and clinical psychology, philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine. The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning comprises the first comprehensive and authoritative handbook for all core topics within the fields of thinking and reasoning.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Contributors xi
Thinking and Reasoning: A Reader's Guide
1(12)
Keith J. Holyoak
Robert G. Morrison
PART I THE NATURE OF HUMAN CONCEPTS
Similarity
13(24)
Robert L. Goldstone
Ji Yun Son
Concepts and Categories: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphysics
37(36)
Douglas L. Medin
Lance J. Rips
Approaches to Modeling Human Mental Representations: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
73(22)
Leonidas A. A. Doumas
John E. Hummel
PART II REASONING
The Problem of Induction
95(22)
Steven A. Sloman
David A. Lagnado
Analogy
117(26)
Keith J. Holyoak
Causal Learning
143(26)
Marc J. Buehner
Patricia W. Cheng
Deductive Reasoning
169(16)
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Mental Models and Thought
185(24)
P. N. Johnson-Laird
Visuospatial Reasoning
209(34)
Barbara Tversky
PART III JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
Decision Making
243(24)
Robyn A. LeBoeuf
Eldar B. Shafir
A Model of Heuristic Judgment
267(28)
Daniel Kahneman
Shane Frederick
Motivated Thinking
295(26)
Daniel C. Molden
E. Tory Higgins
PART IV PROBLEM SOLVING AND COMPLEX LEARNING
Problem Solving
321(30)
Laura R. Novick
Miriam Bassok
Creativity
351(20)
Robert J. Sternberg
Todd I. Lubart
James C. Kaufman
Jean E. Pretz
Complex Declarative Learning
371(30)
Michelene T. H. Chi
Stellan Ohlsson
Thinking as a Production System
401(30)
Marsha C. Lovett
John R. Anderson
Implicit Cognition and Thought
431(26)
Leib Litman
Arthur S. Reber
PART V COGNITIVE AND NEURAL CONSTRAINTS ON HUMAN THOUGHT
Thinking in Working Memory
457(18)
Robert G. Morrison
Cognitive Neuroscience of Deductive Reasoning
475(18)
Vinod Goel
Cognitive and Neuroscience Aspects of Thought Disorder
493(36)
Peter Bachman
Tyrone D. Cannon
PART VI ONTOGENY, PHYLOGENY, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE
Development of Thinking
529(30)
Graeme S. Halford
Mathematical Cognition
559(30)
C. R. Gallistel
Rochel Gelman
Effects of Aging on Reasoning
589(18)
Timothy A. Salthouse
Reasoning and Thinking in Nonhuman Primates
607(26)
Josep Call
Michael Tomasello
Language and Thought
633(30)
Lila Gleitman
Anna Papafragou
Paradigms of Cultural Thought
663(22)
Patricia M. Greenfield
PART VII THINKING IN PRACTICE
Legal Reasoning
685(20)
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Scientific Thinking and Reasoning
705(22)
Kevin Dunbar
Jonathan Fugelsang
Thinking and Reasoning in Medicine
727(24)
Vimla L. Patel
Jose F. Arocha
Jiajie Zhang
Intelligence
751(24)
Robert J. Sternberg
Learning to Think: The Challenges of Teaching Thinking
775(28)
Ron Ritchhart
David N. Perkins
Index 803

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