Evolution and the psychology of thinking : the debate /
The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypothes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Hove ; New York :
Psychology Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Current issues in thinking & reasoning.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypotheses. These hypotheses have far reaching implications for cognition, including a modular view of the mind, which rejects, in its extreme form, any general learning or reasoning abilities. Some evolutionary psychologists have also proposed content-dependent accounts of conditional reasoning and probabi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 0203641604 9780203641606 9786610077922 6610077924 |