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Beginning with the fundamentals, the book examines the mental processes that shape our thoughts, the trajectory of how thought evolved within the animal kingdom and the stages of development of thinking throughout childhood. Robertson insightfully explains the effectiveness of political slogans and advertisements in engaging shallow information processing and the effortful, analytical processing required in critical thinking. Delving into fascinating topics such as magical thinking in the form of religion and superstition, fake news, and motivated ignorance, the book explains the discrepancy between reality and our internal mental representations, the influence of semantics on deductive reasoning and the error-prone, yet adaptive nature of biases.
Containing student-friendly features including end of chapter summaries, demonstrative puzzles, simple figures, and further reading lists, this book will be essential reading for all students of thinking and reasoning.
Beginning with the fundamentals, the book examines the mental processes that shape our thoughts, the trajectory of how thought evolved within the animal kingdom and the stages of development of thinking throughout childhood. Robertson insightfully explains the effectiveness of political slogans and advertisements in engaging shallow information processing and the effortful, analytical processing required in critical thinking. Delving into fascinating topics such as magical thinking in the form of religion and superstition, fake news, and motivated ignorance, the book explains the discrepancy between reality and our internal mental representations, the influence of semantics on deductive reasoning and the error-prone, yet adaptive nature of biases.
Containing student-friendly features including end of chapter summaries, demonstrative puzzles, simple figures, and further reading lists, this book will be essential reading for all students of thinking and reasoning.
S. Ian Robertson gained his PhD from the Open University, UK, on 'Problem Solving from Textbook Examples'. He has published work on portable computing as well as articles and books on problem solving. He was the Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire from 2001 to 2014 when he retired.
Part 1: Thinking: what is it and where does it come from?
1. What is 'thinking'?
2. Evolution of thinking
Part 2: Thinking as reasoning
3. Problem-solving
4. Rational thinking
Part 3: When thinking goes awry
5. Biases, errors, and heuristics
6. Society made me do it
7. The confabulating mind
Part 4: Motivated Cognition
8. Mistaken beliefs about the world
9. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing like the truth
10. Magical thinking
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Philosophie |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780367360757 |
| ISBN-10: | 0367360756 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Robertson, S. Ian |
| Hersteller: | Routledge |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 12 mm |
| Von/Mit: | S. Ian Robertson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.11.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,241 kg |
S. Ian Robertson gained his PhD from the Open University, UK, on 'Problem Solving from Textbook Examples'. He has published work on portable computing as well as articles and books on problem solving. He was the Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire from 2001 to 2014 when he retired.
Part 1: Thinking: what is it and where does it come from?
1. What is 'thinking'?
2. Evolution of thinking
Part 2: Thinking as reasoning
3. Problem-solving
4. Rational thinking
Part 3: When thinking goes awry
5. Biases, errors, and heuristics
6. Society made me do it
7. The confabulating mind
Part 4: Motivated Cognition
8. Mistaken beliefs about the world
9. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing like the truth
10. Magical thinking
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Philosophie |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780367360757 |
| ISBN-10: | 0367360756 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Robertson, S. Ian |
| Hersteller: | Routledge |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 12 mm |
| Von/Mit: | S. Ian Robertson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.11.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,241 kg |
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