Integrating the Mind (eBook, PDF)

Domain General Versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition
Redaktion: Roberts, Maxwell J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

There are currently several debates taking place simultaneously in various fields of psychology which address the same fundamental issue: to what extent are the processes and resources that underlie higher cognition domain-general versus domain-specific? Extreme Domain Specificity argues that people are effective thinkers only in contexts which they have directly experienced, or in which evolution has equipped them with effective solutions. The role of general cognitive abilities is ignored, or denied altogether.

This book evaluates the evidence and arguments put forward in support of domain specific cognition, at the expense of domain generality. The contributions reflect a range of expertise, and present research into logical reasoning, problem solving, judgement and decision making, cognitive development, and intelligence. The contributors suggest that domain general processes are essential, and that domain specific processes cannot function without them. Rather than continuing to divide the mind's function into ever more specific units, this book argues that psychologists should look for greater integration and for people's general cognitive skills to be viewed as an integral part of their lives.

Integrating the Mind will be valuable reading for students and researchers in psychology interested in the fields of cognition, cognitive development, intelligence and skilled behaviour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135420307
• Artikelnr.: 43071691

Autorenporträt

Maxwell J. Roberts is a psychology lecturer at the University of Essex.

Inhaltsangabe

Roberts
Introduction. Extreme Domain Specificity and Higher Cognition. Roberts
Contextual Facilitation Methodology as a Means of Investigating Domain Specific Cognition. Noveck
Mercier
Van der Henst
To What Extent Do Social Contracts Affect Performance on Wason's Selection Task? O'Brien
Roazzi
Athias
Carmo Brandão
What Sorts of Reasoning Modules Have Been Provided by Evolution? Some Experiments Conducted among Tukano Speakers in Brazilian Amazônia Concerning Reasoning about Conditional Propositions and about Conditional Probabilities. Over
Content-independent Conditional Inference. Sloman
Lombrozo
Malt
Mild Ontology and Domain-specific Categorization. Newell
Shanks
Perspectives on the 'Tools' of Decision-making. McKinnon
Levine
Moscovitch
Domain-general Contributions to Social Reasoning: The Perspective from Cognitive Neuroscience. Stenning
van Lambalgen
Explaining the Domain Generality of Human Cognition. Extreme Domain Specificity and Cognitive Development. Halford
Andrews
Domain General Processes in Higher Cognition: Analogical Reasoning
Schema Induction and Capacity Limitations. Overton
Dick
A Competence-procedural and Developmental Approach to Logical Reasoning. Happaney
Zelazo
Less Specificity in Higher Cognitive Mechanisms: Evidence from Theory of Mind. Moses
Sabbagh
Interactions between Domain-general and Domain-specific Processes in the Development of Children's Theories of Mind. Mix
Sandhofer
Do We Need a Number Sense? Extreme Domain Specificity versus Domain General Intelligence. Roberts
Do Problem Solvers Need to be Intelligent? Simonton
Creativity: Specialised Expertise or General Cognitive Processes? Adey
The CASE for a General Factor in Intelligence. Gottfredson
Innovation
Fatal Accidents
and the Evolution of General Intelligence. Brody
Heritability and the Nomological Network of g. Chabris
Cognitive and Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Law of General Intelligence.