A01=K.I. Manktelow
Author_K.I. Manktelow
Base Rate Fallacy
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Belief Bias
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cognitive psychology
deontic
Deontic Reasoning
Deontic Thinking
Entered Medical School
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experimental methodology
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human judgement biases
inference
Inference Rules
logic
Matching Bias
mental
Mental Logic
Mental Logic Theories
Mental Models Theory
model
probability assessment
problem
Prs
rational analysis
selection
Selection Task
Semantic Information
Sesamoid Bones
SEU
Sunk Cost Effect
syllogistic reasoning
Target Rule
task
theory
thog
THOG Problem
Truth Table Task
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undergraduate cognitive science textbook
Vice Versa
Wason's Selection Task
Wason’s Selection Task
Product details
- ISBN 9780863777097
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 172 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 issues in the field: the question of human rationality. Central themes that recur throughout the book include not only rationality, but also the relation between normative theories such as logic, probability theory, and decision theory, and human performance, both in experiments and in the world outside the laboratory. No prior acquaintance with formal systems is assumed, and everyday examples are used throughout to illustrate technical and theoretical points.
The book differs from others in the market firstly in the range of material covered: other tend to focus primarily on on either reasoning or thinking. It is also the first student-level text to survey an imporatant new theoretical perspective, the information-gain or rational analysis approach, and to review the rationality debate from the standpoint of psuchological research in a wide range of areas.
