Methods of Thought (eBook, PDF)

Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies
Redaktion: Newton, Elizabeth; Roberts, Maxwell

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135424084
• Artikelnr.: 39179999

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies. Patrick Lemaire
Ludovic Fabre
Strategic Aspects of Human Cognition: Implications for Understanding Human Reasoning. Bradley J. Morris
Christian D. Schunn
Rethinking Logical Reasoning Skills from a Strategy Perspective. K.J. Gilhooly
Working Memory and Strategies in Reasoning. Alison Bacon
Simon J. Handley
Stephen E. Newstead
Verbal and Spatial Strategies in Reasoning. Vicky Dierckx
Andre Vandierendonck
Adaptive Strategy Applications in Linear Reasoning. Maxwell J. Roberts
Elizabeth J. Newton
Strategy Usage in a Simple Reasoning Task. Elizabeth J. Newton
Maxwell J. Roberts
The Window of Opportunity: A Model for Strategy Discovery.