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Human Thinking - The Basics (Paperback, 3rd Edition) Loot Price: R773
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Human Thinking - The Basics (Paperback, 3rd Edition): S. Ian Robertson

Human Thinking - The Basics (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

S. Ian Robertson

Series: The Basics

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Human Thinking: The Basics provides an essential introduction into how we develop thoughts, the types of reasoning we engage in, and how our thinking can be tailored by subconscious processing.

Beginning with the fundamentals, the book examines the mental processes that shape our thoughts, the trajectory of how thought evolved within the animal kingdom and the stages of development of thinking throughout childhood. Robertson insightfully explains the effectiveness of political slogans and advertisements in engaging shallow information processing and the effortful, analytical processing required in critical thinking. Delving into fascinating topics such as magical thinking in the form of religion and superstition, fake news, and motivated ignorance, the book explains the discrepancy between reality and our internal mental representations, the influence of semantics on deductive reasoning and the error-prone, yet adaptive nature of biases.

Containing student-friendly features including end of chapter summaries, demonstrative puzzles, simple figures, and further reading lists, this book will be essential reading for all students of thinking and reasoning.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Thinking: what is it and where does it come from?

1. What is ‘thinking’?

2. Evolution of thinking

Part 2: Thinking as reasoning

3. Problem-solving

4. Rational thinking

Part 3: When thinking goes awry

5. Biases, errors, and heuristics

6. Society made me do it

7. The confabulating mind

Part 4: Motivated Cognition

8. Mistaken beliefs about the world

9. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing like the truth

10. Magical thinking

General

Imprint: Taylor & Francis
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The Basics
Release date: November 2020
First published: 2021
Authors: S. Ian Robertson
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 222
Edition: 3rd Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-36075-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General
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LSN: 0-367-36075-6
Barcode: 9780367360757

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