Thinking : readings in cognitive science /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977. |
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| Description: | xii, 615 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/185976 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements; An introduction to the study of thinking
- Part I. Problem Solving
- 1. Introduction: Wertheimer's seminars revisited: diagnostic testing for understanding of structure
- 2. Mental calculation
- 3. On the analysis of human problem solving protocols
- 4. Formalisms for knowledge
- Part II. Deduction
- 5. Introduction: constructing spatial images: a strategy in reasoning
- 6. Linguistic processes in deductive reasoning
- 7. Self-contradictions
- 8. Reasoning with quantifiers
- 9. A theoretical analysis of insight into a reasoning task
- 10. Intellectual evolution from adolescence to childhood
- Part III. Conceptual Thinking
- 11. Classification: purposes, principles, progress, prospects
- 12. Learning to identify toy block structures
- 13. Classification of real-world objects: origins and representations in cognition
- 14. Some evidence for the cognitive primacy of categorization and its functional basis
- 15. The acquisition of word meaning: an investigation of some current conflicts
- Part IV. Hypotheses
- 16. Introduction: on hypotheses
- 17. A function for thought experiments
- 18. 'If you want to get ahead, get a theory'
- 19. 'On the failure to eliminate hypotheses ...' - a second look
- 20. Confirmation bias in a simulated research environment: an experimental study of scientific inference
- 21. Judgement under uncertainty: heruristics and biases
- Part V. Inference and Comprehension
- 22. Introduction: frame-system theory
- 23. A sketch of a cognitive approach to comprehension: some thoughts about understanding what it means to comprehend
- 24. Practical and lexical knowledge
- 25. Bridging
- 26. Scripts, plans, and knowledge
- Part VI. Language, Culture, and Thinking
- 27. Introduction: likeness and likelihood in everyday thought: magical thinking and everyday judgements about personality
- 28. An ethnographic psychology of cognition
- 29. Modes of thinking and ways of speaking: culture and logic reconsidered
- 30. Linguistic relativity
- Part VII. Imagery and Internal Representation
- 31. Introduction: mental rotation of three-dimensional objects
- 32. Inference, navigation and cognitive maps
- 33. Perception in game playing: internal representation and scanning of board positions
- 34. Some necessary conditions for a master chess program
- Bibliography (and citation index)