Types of ThinkingPsychology Press, 1999 - 167 lappuses Types of Thinking provides a basic grounding in the psychology of thinking for undergraduate students with little previous knowledge of cognitive psychology. This clear, well-structured overview explores the practical aspects and applications of everyday thinking, creative thinking, logical and scientific thinking, intelligent thinking and machine thinking. It also explores 'failures of thinking', the biases and shortcuts that sometimes lead our thinking astray. The author tackles big ideas in an accessible manner and in an entertaining style, ensuring that Types of Thinking will be attractive not only to students but also to teachers organising and planning courses, as well as the lay reader. |
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Series preface | xiii |
Everyday thinking | 11 |
Creative thinking | 37 |
Logical and scientific | 59 |
Failures of thinking | 83 |
Intelligent thinking | 107 |
Thinking about thinking | 133 |
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ability action allow analogy answer argued aspects availability heuristic ball behaviour beliefs biases Cambridge Chapter cognitive dissonance conclusion confirmation bias connectionist constraints context creative product creative thinking deductive reasoning device effortful thinking environment everyday thinking example experience fact Figure Further reading gambler's fallacy generalisations goal heuristic Hobbits human thinking hypotheses induction inferences insight intelligent thinking involves kind knowledge learned letter limits to thinking logical long-term memory look lottery means-end analysis mental model mental representation models of intelligence motion naïve physics objects operator Orcs participants Piaget problem solving problem space procedures process information puzzle recognise relevant rely representativeness heuristic rule salient schema selection task situation solution solver someone specific stage Sternberg strategies structure sub-goals sunk cost fallacy surface features tend theory things tion Tower of Hanoi types of thinking understanding University Press Wason Wason selection task words wrong