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Human Thinking

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robertson, S. Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Colección:The Basics Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1: THINKING: WHAT IS IT AND WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? -- 1. WHAT IS 'THINKING'? -- Introduction -- Conscious vs unconscious thinking -- Thinking has its limits -- Undirected thinking -- Inattentional blindness -- Thinking as information processing -- some historical background -- Metaphors of thought -- Mental models of the world -- Relative vs absolute thinking -- The role of the environment -- Fast vs slow thinking -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- 2: EVOLUTION OF THINKING 
505 8 |a Introduction -- The evolving brain -- The costs of thinking -- Biologically primary vs biologically secondary thinking -- Folk physics -- Folk biology -- Folk psychology -- Male vs female folk psychology -- Biologically secondary thinking -- Optimal vs suboptimal evolutionary pressures -- The Swiss Army Knife vs the hand -- The development of thinking in childhood -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- PART 2: THINKING AS REASONING -- 3. PROBLEM-SOLVING -- Introduction -- Bounded rationality -- Well-defined and ill-defined problems -- Means-ends analysis -- The development of expertise 
505 8 |a Creative problem-solving -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- 4: RATIONAL THINKING -- Introduction -- 'Logical' thinking -- Types of logical reasoning -- Why Sherlock Holmes' reasoning is illogical -- The new paradigm -- 'Rational' decisions and when to avoid them -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- PART 3: WHEN THINKING GOES AWRY -- 5. BIASES, ERRORS, AND HEURISTICS -- Confirmation bias -- Early studies of confirmation bias -- Guessing when to stop digging -- Dealing with uncertainty -- Tversky and Kahneman -- Biases and heuristics -- Representativeness -- Availability 
505 8 |a Anchoring and adjustment -- Gigerenzer, Todd and the ABC Research Group -- Fast and frugal heuristics -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- 6: SOCIETY MADE ME DO IT -- Introduction -- Where do the biases come from? -- Overcoming biases -- Do machines think differently? -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- 7: THE CONFABULATING MIND -- Introduction -- How to make people an offer they can't refuse -- Mistaking implications for assertions -- The rhyme as reason effect (aka the Keats effect) -- Choosing competent politicians the easy way -- How do we justify our choices? 
505 8 |a So, who do you think you are? -- Causal attributions -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- PART 4: MOTIVATED COGNITION -- 8. MISTAKEN BELIEFS ABOUT THE WORLD -- Naïve physics -- 'When prophecy fails' -- Confirmation bias revisited: The neuropsychology of confirmation bias -- The irrational persistence of belief -- Summary -- Suggested Further Reading -- 9: THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING LIKE THE TRUTH -- Introduction -- Belief and disorders of belief -- Motivated ignorance, and real ignorance -- Conspiratorial thinking -- Who is susceptible to fake news? -- Summary 
500 |a Suggested Further Reading. 
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