The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

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Keith J. Holyoak, Robert G. Morrison
Cambridge University Press, Apr 18, 2005 - Psychology - 858 pages
The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is a comprehensive and authoritative 2005 handbook covering all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the foremost experts from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, individual chapters summarize basic concepts and findings for a major topic, sketch its history, and give a sense of the directions in which research is currently heading. The volume also includes work related to developmental, social and clinical psychology, philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine. Scholars and students in all these fields and others will find this to be a valuable collection.

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Contents

PART I
6
page ix
88
The Problem of Induction
95
117
141
Deductive Reasoning
169
37
239
73
264
A Model of Heuristic Judgment
267
Effects of Aging on Reasoning
601
321
607
Lubart
633
Complex Declarative Learning
663
Lovett
685
Leib Litman
705
PART V
713
COGNITIVE AND NEURAL
740

Motivated Thinking
295
295
529
PROBLEM SOLVING
541
COMPLEX LEARNING
553
Rochel Gelman
559
Robert G Morrison
762
Vinod Goel
776
Cannon
831
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About the author (2005)

Keith J. Holyoak is Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has made a number of major contributions to the scientific understanding of human thinking and has pioneered modern work on the role of analogy in thinking. Robert G. Morrison is President and Partner of Xunesis, a theatre and exhibition production company dedicated to educating the general public about scientific theory and research through creative means. He received his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UCLA. His research involves understanding how the human brain implements higher cognition.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning
Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, Keith James Holyoak
EditorsKeith J. Holyoak, Robert G. Morrison
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2005
ISBN0521824176, 9780521824170
Length858 pages
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Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Psychology / General
  
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