Methods of Thought: Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1841693952 ISBN 13: 9781841693958

Casa editrice: Psychology Press, 2004

Riassunto

How do people make inferences? How do their reasoning processes differ and why? Methods of Thought attempts to answer these questions by looking in detail at the different reasoning strategies people apply, how these are acquired, how they are selected and how use of these strategies is influenced by individual and task properties. Focusing on empirical data and research into deductive reasoning tasks, this book summarizes current trends in the field and helps us to understand how individual differences in reasoning impact on other studies of higher cognitive abilities in humans.

Contributors include researchers who have shown that people make deductions by using a variety of strategies, and others who have found that deductive reasoning problems provide a useful test-bed for investigating general theories of strategy development. Together, it is shown that these general theories derived from other domains have important implications for deductive reasoning, and also that findings by reasoning researchers have wider consequences for general theories of strategy development. This book will be of interest to anyone studying or working in the fields of reasoning, problem solving, and cognitive development, as well as cognitive science in general.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Maxwell J. Roberts is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Essex.
Elizabeth Newton is Research Fellow in the Department of Human Communication Science, University College London.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Psychology Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1841693952
• ISBN 13: 9781841693958
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Redattore: Newton Elizabeth, Roberts Maxwell
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania