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Human Thinking
Taschenbuch von S. Ian Robertson
Sprache: Englisch

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Human Thinking: The Basics provides an essential introduction into how we develop thoughts, the types of reasoning we engage in, and how our thinking can be tailored by subconscious processing.

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.
Human Thinking: The Basics provides an essential introduction into how we develop thoughts, the types of reasoning we engage in, and how our thinking can be tailored by subconscious processing.

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.
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, 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
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: S. Ian Robertson
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,241 kg
Artikel-ID: 120668116
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, 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
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: S. Ian Robertson
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,241 kg
Artikel-ID: 120668116
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