Thinking and Reasoning Arena

Types of Thinking

• By S. Ian Robertson.

Published April 1999

Types of Thinking provides a basic grounding in the psychology of thinking for undergraduate students with little previous knowledge of cognitive psychology. This clear, well-structured overview explores the practical aspects and applications of everyday thinking, creative thinking, logical and…
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Reasoning and Thinking

• By K.I. Manktelow.

Published February 1999

This undergraduate textbook reviews psychological research in the major areas of reasoning and thinking: deduction, induction, hypothesis testing, probability judgement, and decision making. It also covers the major theoretical debates in each area, and devotes a chapter to one of the liveliest…
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Rationality In An Uncertain World

Essays In The Cognitive Science Of Human Understanding

• Edited by Nick Chater, and Mike Oaksford.

Published April 1998

This book brings together an influential sequence of papers that argue for a radical re-conceptualisation of the psychology of inference, and of cognitive science more generally. The papers demonstrate that the thesis that logic provides the basis of human inference is central to much cognitive…
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Working Memory and Thinking

Current Issues In Thinking And Reasoning

• By Kenneth Gilhooly, and Robert H. Logie.

Published February 1998

Thinking and memory are inextricably linked. However, a "divide and rule" approach has led cognitive psychologists to study these two areas in relative isolation. With contributions from some of the leading international researchers on working memory and thinking, the present volume aims to break…
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Expert Thinking

A Special Issue of Thinking and Reasoning

• Edited by Kenneth Gilhooly, and Robert Hoffman.

Published November 1997

The major purpose of this special issue is to highlight the topic of expert thinking. The issue samples the diversity of domains of expertise and includes a good sample of paradigms and methods, with articles that involve think aloud problem solving tasks, computer simulations, and traditional…
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Apraxia

The Neuropsychology of Action

• Edited by Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, and Kenneth M. Heilman.

Published May 1997

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a perspective on apraxia that considers a link between the pathology of apraxia and normal motor skill. In addition, it is the intention of the authors to provide information that is theoretically interesting as well as clinically applicable.…
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Knowledge In Minds

Individual and Collective Processes in Cognition

• By A.L. Wilkes.

Published February 1997

Many texts in cognitive psychology deal with the details of cognitive processes as individually defined. This text provides an account of cognition that focuses upon the cumulative and share nature of human enterprise. It aims to adopt a balanced approach by considering both theories. The result is…
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Perspectives On Thinking And Reasoning

Essays In Honour Of Peter Wason

• Edited by Stephen Newstead; Jonathan St.B.T. Evans both of the University of Plymouth..

Published July 1995

This collection of essays focuses on three reasoning problems devised by Peter Wason - the selection task, the 2-4-6 task, and the THOG problem - which have had a considerable influence since their invention.; The reasons why people make so many errors in these seemingly simple tasks are still not…
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Human Reasoning

The Psychology Of Deduction

• By Ruth M.J. Byrne, Jonathan St.B.T. Evans and Stephen E. Newstead.

Published June 1993

Deductive reasoning is widely regarded as an activity central to human intelligence, and as such has attracted an increasing amount of psychological study in recent years. In this first major survey of the field for over a decade, the authors provide a detailed and balanced review of all the main…
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