The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

by Edited by Keith J. Holyoak , Robert G. Morrison

• ISBN13: 9780521824170
• ISBN10: 0521824176
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is the first comprehensive and authoritative handbook covering all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the foremost experts from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, individual chapters summarize basic concepts and findings for a major topic, sketch its history, and give a sense of the directions in which research is currently heading. The volume also includes work related to developmental, social and clinical psychology, philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine. Scholars and students in all these fields and others will find this to be a valuable collection.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. The Nature of Human Concepts: 1. Thinking and reasoning: a reader's guide Keith J. Holyoak and Robert G. Morrison

2. Similarity Robert l. Goldstone and Ji Yun Son

3. Concepts and categories: memory, meaning, and metaphysics Douglas L. Medin and Lance J. Rips

4. Approaches to modeling human mental representations: what works, what doesn't and why Leonidas A. A. Doumas and John E. Hummel

Part II. Reasoning: 5. The problem of induction Steven A. Sloman and David A. Lagnado

6. Analogy Keith J. Holyoak

7. Causal learning Marc J. Buehner and Patricia W. Cheng

8. Deductive reasoning Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

9. Mental models and thought P. N. Johnson-Laird

10. Visuospatial reasoning Barbara Tversky

Part III. Judgment and Decision Making: 11. Decision making Robyn A. LeBoeuf and Eldar Shafir

12. A model of heuristic judgment Daniel Kahneman and Shane Frederick

13. Motivated thinking Daniel C. Molden and E. Tory Higgins

Part IV. Problem Solving and Complex Learning: 14. Problem solving Laura R. Novick and Miriam Bassok

15. Creativity Robert J. Sternberg, Todd I. Lubart, James C. Kaufman and Jean E. Pretz

16. Complex declarative learning Michelene T. H. Chi and Stellan Ohlsson

17. Thinking as a production system Marsha C. Lovett and John R. Anderson

18. Implicit cognition and thought Leib Litman and Arthur S. Reber

Part V. Cognitive and Neural Constraints on Human Thought: 19. Thinking in working memory Robert G. Morrison

20. Cognitive neuroscience of deductive reasoning Vinod Goel

21. Cognitive and neuroscience aspects of thought disorder Peter Bachman and Tyrone D. Cannon

Part VI. Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Language, and Culture: 22. Development of thinking Graeme S. Halford

23. Mathematical thinking Randy Gallistel and Rochel Gelman

24. Effects of aging on reasoning Timothy A. Salthouse

25. Reasoning and thinking in nonhuman primates Josep Call and Michael Tomasello

26. Language and thought Lila Gleitman and Anna Papafragou

27. Paradigms of cultural thought Patricia M. Greenfield

Part VII. Thinking in Practice: 28. Legal reasoning Phoebe C. Ellsworth

29. Scientific thinking and reasoning Kevin Dunbar and Jonathan Fugelsang

30. Reasoning in medicine Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha and Jiajie Zhang

31. Intelligence Robert J. Sternberg

32. Learning to think: the challenges of teaching thinking Ron Ritchhart and David N. Perkins.