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.
Temas:
Thought and thinking.
Pensée.
thinking.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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

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